Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

I'm one of those guys who's a hard worker.

I am a hard worker, and there's nothing wrong with my motor.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

The true success is to labour.

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

Remember: when you knock on the door of Opportunity, it is Work who answers!

I'm a pretty hard worker.

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.

I know only one way: work hard.

I'm just a really hardworking person.