You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, ‘I awake to do the work of a man.’
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Work first, and then rest.
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.
Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.
Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; ’tis God’s gift.
Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don’t want to do it.
Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing.
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don’t want to do it.
Don’t make excuses, just get it done!
Your family is depending on you. There’s no better reason to bring your A-game all the time.
Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.
When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.
Why can I not fight for my country too?
We are all on this road together. The good men who fight for wrong causes, and the corrupt men who cloak themselves in righteousness. Each one of them convinced they are on the side of the angels.
You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.
Leave this world a little better than you found it.
You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.