The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
Albert EinsteinIf you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Terry PratchettDifficult doesn’t mean impossible. It simply means that you have to work hard.
UnknownAction is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo PicassoWorking hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself.
J. K. RowlingWishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
AristotleDo your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert HubbardExcellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
AristotleI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. EdisonMotivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
Benjamin FranklinI want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard ShawI find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas JeffersonI walk slowly but I never walk backward.
Abraham LincolnPleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
AristotleBe a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
BuddhaGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham LincolnWork like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Satchel PaigeOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. EdisonSome people see things that are and ask "Why?" Some people dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?" Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...
George CarlinIf you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Steve JobsArdently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.
BuddhaI hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. ThompsonA child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Paulo CoelhoNothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
Jane AustenThe big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
Oprah WinfreyWithout ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThis is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan WattsNo man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho MarxIt isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor RooseveltThe goal of war is peace, of business leisure.
AristotleHard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Oscar WildeMost people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George CarlinThe end of labor is to gain leisure.
AristotleI've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
Maya AngelouWhen your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK, but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
Steve MartinI love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Stephen KingEach of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar WildeIf it requires a uniform it's a worthless endeavor
George CarlinAbsence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William CowperWith men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please every feature works.
Jane AustenA man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar WildeI worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho MarxWork is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil GibranFor anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John BurroughsIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinThe first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John RuskinIf your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel JohnsonAll the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon HillYou make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do.
Kim KardashianHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen KellerIn dwelling live close to the ground. In thinking keep to the simple. In conflict be fair and generous. In governing don't try to control. In work do what you enjoy. In family life be completely present.
Lao TzuFollow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
BuddhaA lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig ZiglarBeset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
Ralph MarstonWe give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
AristotleWhat we have to learn to do we learn by doing.
AristotleThe human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da VinciHow can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
Rush LimbaughA leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao TzuAll the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl JungOne thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am, will never work in this town again.
Jim CarreyI hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan RiversVanity, working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane AustenMan - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark TwainSometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
Joel OsteenWork is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar WildeI hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny saying things like 'I can't do it!'
Christina AguileraIn all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya AngelouAmerican business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees, who are educated enough, that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
Dave BarryPut two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. RooseveltCompany cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try instead to work with what you've got.
Peter DruckerHe does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. EdisonGod works wonders now and then, Behold a lawyer an honest man.
Benjamin FranklinA gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
William HazlittBetter the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John RuskinNever despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund BurkeThe expectations of life depend upon diligence, the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
ConfuciusWork consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark TwainAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinEvil gains work their punishment.
SophoclesWhen you work, you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Kahlil GibranThe miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.
Mother TeresaOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand RussellThe moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar WildeI'm a workin' girl.
Dolly PartonGood leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. RockefellerAnd I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Jim ValvanoLook at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Abdul KalamA guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert CamusI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt WhitmanI don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya AngelouYour work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
BuddhaMy three addictions of choice are food, love and work.
Alanis MorissetteIf children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard DawkinsFree enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul RyanThe brain is a wonderful organ, it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert FrostMan, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John SteinbeckSome critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya AngelouI think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George CarlinThe finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David ThoreauWithout 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 JungWhen the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
William BlakeWe are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin FranklinIt's crazy to take little in between jobs just because they look good on your resume. That's like saving sex for your old age. Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.
Warren BuffettIt hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich SchillerIt is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning, after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John SteinbeckI wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.
Tiger WoodsWhat a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god.
William ShakespeareEven sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
HeraclitusMen of lofty genius, when they are doing the least work, are most active.
Leonardo da VinciIf you want to make peace with your enemy you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson MandelaIf you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo CoelhoGod never wrought miracles to convince atheism because his ordinary works convince it.
Francis BaconI put all my genius into my life, I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar WildeThe greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael JacksonA lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter ScottA dream doesn't become reality through magic, it takes sweat determination and hard work.
Colin PowellDesign is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course if you dig deeper it's really how it works.
Steve JobsLeaders 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.
Vince LombardiAmerica lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow WilsonThunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark TwainAll paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
AristotleThe profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.
John SteinbeckGod and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel ButlerAs far as I knew, white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya AngelouWhen you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill GatesWhatever work we do, whatever sacrifices we perform, they are not of much use in the absence of love.
Sai BabaIt's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis CarrollMemory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Andre MauroisWhen you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
ConfuciusLet us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted, according to the graces we have received, and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother TeresaThe way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
Margaret MeadThe pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William BlakeIf it's your job to eat a frog it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark TwainThe difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. MenckenDespite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
Stephen CoveyI do the very best I know how - the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham LincolnI was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance, or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
Steve MartinWork is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark TwainNow you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here in the United States of America.
Barack ObamaThose who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.
Mahatma GandhiSome of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MoliereThe eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin FranklinNothing will work unless you do.
Maya AngelouIntelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Richard DawkinsIf my mother knew I did this for a living she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny YoungmanI have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da VinciTechnology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill GatesIt is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma GandhiIt's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser and you're trying to make it look good, but you feel like you're just working on your own.
Drew BarrymoreWhoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
Herman HesseMature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
Deepak ChopraI have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men, than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David ThoreauThe caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity
George CarlinI try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate to be totally present for all my work.
Maya AngelouI sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work, but find it is a foolish experiment.
William BlakeAlongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.
Sai BabaHave convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor RooseveltWe need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Andy RooneyWe would rather look for easier things to do.
Warren BuffettI hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
Michael JordanSome slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John RuskinThe most successful people I've worked with like the Rolling Stones - people of a different kind of legendary caliber - have such great warm energy.
Christina AguileraPutting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Paul McCartneyBy working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert FrostGod made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous, why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
Drew BarrymoreIt's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
Alanis MorissetteA man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best, but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn my work and in myself I reflect black people women and men as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
Alice WalkerTake off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes " he said his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
Barack ObamaI'm the true definition of a workaholic.
Kim KardashianMy philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives then work hard toward that goal we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald ReaganIn 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.
John RuskinYour work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it.
Steve JobsThere are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary ClintonProducing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'
Drew BarrymoreMy message especially to young people is to have courage to think differently courage to invent to travel the unexplored path courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Abdul KalamAll great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert CamusIf I am elected President of these United States I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it our nation depends upon it the peace and freedom of the world require it.
Mitt RomneyThe way of the Creative works through change and transformation so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander PopeIf at the end of the week's work and on receiving his wages he were to ask his employer for a larger sum pleading that though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it yet he expected it he would not only receive the larger sum but would doubtless be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings
James AllenIn every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
Francis BaconI spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.
Mitt RomneyThere be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil busy workshops easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place
Francis Bacon