Frederic Raphael Quotes

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

Only your work is your hands, and I focus on that.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Work begets work.

If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.

Without labor nothing prospers.

I like to work hard and see the results of my hard work.

I think work begets work.

I really love learning and working long hours.

I always find something to keep me busy.

Do the day's work.

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.