Work quotes -1

Thomas Alva Edison:
Genius is one percent inspiration (灵感) and ninety-nine percent perspiration (排汗).



Thomas Alva Edison:
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought (考虑将来), system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.



Thomas Alva Edison:
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls (工装裤) and looks like work.



Thomas Jefferson:
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.



Vaclav Havel:
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.



Victor Hugo:
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.



Vince Lombardi:
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.



Vince Lombardi:
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.



Winston Churchill:
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.