Edgar Guest Quotes

What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.

I've got to continue to work on everything.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

Without labor there is no rest, nor without fighting can the victory be won.

With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.” “Just most things.

There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

When you can't create you can work

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

Sometimes moving on takes effort. Sometimes moving on is harder than it looks.

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.