Confucius Quotes

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

The common denominator for success is work.

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

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

Very few people get into that category of being a good grafter.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I have always said, 'Never stop work.' Continue work and sort out issues simultaneously.

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

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

I will work day after day like I did my whole life ... I'm not going to change anything.

We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

If you're passionate about something, you believe in it, then you have to be consistent. And you have to put in the hard work that it takes to be successful.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.