Lydia M. Child Quotes

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

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

I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.

People know I work hard.

I was a hard worker.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

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.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

The true success is to labour.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

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.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

Accustom yourself to tireless activity.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.