Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

I'm not a trust-fund child. I think my father's got a healthy work ethic, and therefore, I think it just came with the part. You've got to look after yourself.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

I like challenging myself. I'm not a person who likes not to work.

Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine.

Work alone is noble.

It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.

I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to basically collect money and do nothing.

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.