Evan Esar Quotes

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

Whitney Cummings is one of the hardest working people I know, and she's very motivated.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

You can accomplish anything in life if you are willing to work for it.

I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

I believe one should work hard to get what you want.

I know only one way: work hard.

I'm just a really hardworking person.

Kids ask me about what they should do to make it, and I tell them, 'Just get your head down and work, work, work.'

I don't care if I'm starting or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win.

I believe anything can be achieved by hard work.

When people are successful, they usually become lazy.