There are a lot of people that have dreams. I like to say everyone who has ever had a shower has had a good idea. It's the people who dry off and do something about them that make a difference.
I've succeeded at something that at times I've hated, and that's relevant to the person who goes down to the auto repair shop and puts in his time. We all have to do things we don't like.
If you have millions of dollars it changes your lifestyle, and anyone who says differently is talking bullshit. I don’t need to work, from a standard of living point of view, but I do, you know. I work every day and on weekends and I haven’t taken a vacation for years.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
People love to get things done. There is incredible satisfaction that comes from checking off an item on the list of things to do—the ability to look at a finished result and say, “Yep, I did that today.”
Heavenly Father invites us everywhere to feel His love, to learn and grow through education, honorable work, self-reliant service, and patterns of goodness and happiness we find in His restored Church.
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
When the mind bends gladly to a task, and the hand has to keep up with the eager spirit, one feels in tune with the universe, and misfortune loses its sting.
Prepare yourself for the fact that all jobs—no matter how cool sounding—require you to perform some tasks that aren’t exactly enjoyable. Be satisfied with being mostly satisfied. Rock stars sleep in buses. Park rangers deal with drunk tourists. You get the point.
Since camaraderie matters, be a good teammate. Make decisions with others’ best interest in mind. Carry your fair share of the work load. Pitch in when others fall behind. Stand up for your colleagues. Speak kindly to others. Willingly do tough jobs. Give others the benefit of the doubt. Deliver on your promises. Master your craft. Be the person you’d like others to be.
Search for a job where you can relate to the organization’s mission. You may find little enjoyment in laying bricks all day long, but if the crew you work with is building an architectural masterpiece, you can find joy in your combined results.
Become an individual who loves and masters several fields of study. Remember, the more activities you enjoy (at both work and at play), the easier it will be for you to find enjoyment.
Don’t confuse uninspired teaching with a subject being boring.
Good work involves nourishing the life of something inside you that is larger than yourself.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
There is no way to success in our art, but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
If a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
Everything in life requires that you make trade-offs. If you believe that your work comes after your personal life, you are trading off the results you need to provide the best life possible for you and the people you care about. If you believe that your personal life comes after work, you will neglect the most important people in your life.
So people talk about work-life balance, meaning they want to prefer their personal life over their work life. They don’t want work to overtake in importance things like friends, family, and experiences. This isn't balance; it's preferring your personal life over your work. This isn’t only the wrong answer, it’s the wrong question. The right question is “How can I have an exceptional work life AND an exceptional personal life?”
Without exceptional work, you will be less fulfilled than you should be. You are here for some purpose, to make some contribution, to make a difference in some way.
Without an exceptional life, there is no reason to work. There is no reason to work if doing so deprives you of all of the experiences that make a up a happy and fulfilled life. The more fulfilled you are in your personal life, the more you bring your best self to your work.
Instead of believing that work comes before everything else or that everything else comes before work, start with idea that you are designing an exceptional life. You want an exceptional personal life AND an exceptional work life. After all, they’re both important parts of your one life.
Work with great speed. Have your energies alert, up and active. Finish as quickly as you can. There is no virtue in delaying.
What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Far and away the best prize life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
I talked to the personnel director of one large company who told me that for every job of common labor available on today's market, there are twenty-five applicants. One man receives a job; twenty-four are turned away because they do not have the skills. On the other hand, if that same person who is applying for work with this company in Salt Lake City has a college degree in a technical field, he can take his pick of any three jobs, and if he is in the top fifty percent of his class, he can take his pick of twenty-five or thirty jobs. For youth, it is important that they receive an education, so that they can qualify for their places in life.
Let me remind each of us, however, that education doesn't simply mean that we attend school. Education means that we learn to think. Henry Ford put it in words when he said, "An educated man is not one who has trained his mind to remember a few dates in history. He is one who can accomplish things. If a man cannot think, he is not an educated man, regardless of how many college degrees he may have attained. Thinking is the hardest work a man can do, which is probably the reason we have so few thinkers."
Speaking of this affluence, one youngster said: "Kids are caught between the values given them as desirable by their churches, schools, and parents on one hand and on the other the spectacle of mothers and fathers both working with great concentration to get 'things.'"
To be prepared spiritually for leadership overshadows all other types of preparation. A wise leader cautioned, "When you play, play hard. When you work, don't play at all." Leadership requires effort, hard work, a do-or-die philosophy. When we speak of work as an essential ingredient of leadership, we speak also of teamwork. Getting along with others must be part of our work and service pattern, or leadership assignments will pass us by. One cannot perform all of the needed work by himself. J. C. Penney, the business leader, advised, "My definition of leadership is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through the aid of other people. Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of yourself so that others can get along with you."
May each of us think big, prepare well, work hard, and live right, thereby finding success in life.
My counsel to returning missionaries and to every youth is that they should study and prepare for their life's work in a field that they enjoy, because they are going to spend a good share of their lives in that field. I believe it should be a field that will challenge their intellect and a field that will make maximum utilization of their talents and their capabilities, and, finally, a field that will provide them sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for a companion and children. Such is a big order, but I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing one's life's work.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The forms of beauty fall naturally around the path of him who is in the performance of his proper work.
Be thankful every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
Doubt not to reap, if thou canst bear to plough.
Our thoughts limit what we're capable of doing. There are external forces arrayed against us, but there are also internal forces that sabotage us before we even get started. Our mind is good at setting us up for failure and getting us to think small. But I have found that we will do for love that which we don't think is possible. So the question to ask ourselves is "What do I love?"
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If you are going to leave you footprints in the sands of time first put on your workboots.
One must know how to work hard for a long time, but in such a manner that nobody would notice the amount of labor and sweat on that painting.
There are a lot of people that have dreams. I like to say everyone who has ever had a shower has had a good idea. It's the people who dry off and do something about them that make a difference.
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