
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.Chanakya
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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.Chanakya

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'Lao Tzu

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.Wole Soyinka

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.Booker T. Washington

Nothing will work unless you do.Maya Angelou

Work is love made visible.Kahlil Gibran

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.Lao Tzu

The beginning is the most important part of the work.Plato

For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.Frantz Fanon

The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.Emiliano Zapata

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Theodore Roosevelt

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.Gustave Flaubert
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.Henry J. Kaiser
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.Gautama Buddha
Do more than dream: work.William Arthur Ward
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.Gautama Buddha
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.Thomas Edison
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.Thomas Jefferson
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.Henry Van Dyke
Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.Robert Anthony
The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work.Dalai Lama
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.Rumi
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.Gautama Buddha
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.Henri-Frederic Amiel
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.Rita Mae Brown
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.Pearl Buck
The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. When you spend time having fun, you know you're being self-indulgent.Paul Graham
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.Albert Einstein
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.David McCullough
It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.Danilo Dolci
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.Carl Jung
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.John Lubbock
It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity.Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price well have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.Vince Lombardi
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.Vaclav Havel
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.David Rockefeller
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.Carlos Castaneda
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.Anatole France
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.Nikola Tesla
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.W. Clement Stone
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.Francoise de Motteville
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.Steve Jobs
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John D. Rockefeller
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.Virat Kohli
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else.Virat Kohli
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.Pele
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.Lionel Messi
Dedication, hard work all the time, and belief.Cristiano Ronaldo
I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.Michael Phelps
Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.Dwayne Johnson
Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.Dwayne Johnson
Miracles do happen, but one has to work hard for them.Rajinikanth
Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.Leonardo DiCaprio
The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.C. V. Raman
My success will not depend on what A or B thinks of me. My success will be what I make of my work.Homi Bhabha
Remember, your work may be only to sweep a railway crossing, but it is your duty to keep it so clean that no other crossing in the world is as clean as yours.M. Visvesvaraya

If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles.Wayne Dyer

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.Napoleon Hill

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.Leonardo da Vinci

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.Bruce Lee

Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard Bach