How 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?

A 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 Tzu

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Carl Jung

One 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 Carrey

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.

Joan Rivers

Vanity, working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Jane Austen

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Joel Osteen

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

I 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 Aguilera

In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.

Maya Angelou

American 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 Barry

Put 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. Roosevelt

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try instead to work with what you've got.

Peter Drucker

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas A. Edison

God works wonders now and then, Behold a lawyer an honest man.

Benjamin Franklin

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

William Hazlitt

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

John Ruskin

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Edmund Burke

The expectations of life depend upon diligence, the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

John Ruskin

Evil gains work their punishment.

Sophocles

When 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 Gibran

The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.

Mother Teresa

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

If a man smiles all the time he's probably selling something that doesn't work

George Carlin

Let us perform heroic deeds by working together,

Sai Baba

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Oscar Wilde

I'm a workin' girl.

Dolly Parton

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

And 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 Valvano

Look 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 Kalam

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

Of life's two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart, and the second in a laborer's hand.

Kahlil Gibran

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Mahatma Gandhi

I 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 Angelou

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.

Alanis Morissette

If 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 Dawkins

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Paul Ryan

The 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 Frost

Man, 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 Steinbeck

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Maya Angelou

I 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 Carlin

The 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 Thoreau

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

When 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 Blake

We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Benjamin Franklin

It'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 Buffett

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Friedrich Schiller

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

It 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 Steinbeck

I 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 Woods

What 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 Shakespeare

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Heraclitus

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Mahatma Gandhi

Men of lofty genius, when they are doing the least work, are most active.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you want to make peace with your enemy you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Paulo Coelho

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism because his ordinary works convince it.

Francis Bacon

I put all my genius into my life, I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

What I know is is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Oprah Winfrey

A 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 Scott

A dream doesn't become reality through magic, it takes sweat determination and hard work.

Colin Powell

Design 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 Jobs

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.

Vince Lombardi

America 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 Wilson

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Mark Twain

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

John Steinbeck

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Samuel Butler

As 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 Angelou

When 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 Gates

Whatever work we do, whatever sacrifices we perform, they are not of much use in the absence of love.

Sai Baba

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll

Memory 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 Maurois

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Confucius

Let 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 Teresa

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Margaret Mead

The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Ansel Adams

The 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 Blake

If 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 Twain

The 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. Mencken

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Stephen Covey

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.

Rabindranath Tagore

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance, or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

Steve Martin

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Mark Twain

Now 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 Obama

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

Mahatma Gandhi

Some 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.

Moliere

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing will work unless you do.

Maya Angelou

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Mother Teresa

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Richard Dawkins

If my mother knew I did this for a living she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.

Henny Youngman

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon come out from behind the clouds! Shine!

Buddha

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

Buddha

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Leonardo da Vinci

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Kahlil Gibran

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

It'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 Barrymore

Whoever 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 Hesse

Learning without thought is labor lost, and thought without learning is perilous.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

Deepak Chopra

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I 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 Thoreau

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity

George Carlin

I 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 Angelou

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

I sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work, but find it is a foolish experiment.

William Blake

Alongside 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 Baba

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total, of all those acts, will be written the history of this generation.

Robert Kennedy

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Andy Rooney

We would rather look for easier things to do.

Warren Buffett

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Samuel Johnson

I 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 Jordan

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin

Old minds are like old horses, you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

The 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 Aguilera

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

Paul McCartney

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

God 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 Barrymore

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

Alanis Morissette

A 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 Emerson

In 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 Walker

Take 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 Obama

I'm the true definition of a workaholic.

Kim Kardashian

My 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 Reagan

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.

John Ruskin

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Calvin Coolidge

Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.

Sai Baba

Your 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 Jobs

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

The painter must enclose himself within his work, he must respond not with words but with paintings.

Paul Cezanne

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

Theodore Roosevelt

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work which proves that man was not born to rest.

Voltaire

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with Him continually and you will not sin will learn to love and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself your body your mind your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Bill Gates

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Frank Zappa

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

Michelle Obama

I think they say that when you're breast feeding you know your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

Christina Aguilera

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

There 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 Clinton

Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition which is sorrow for sin together with a purpose of amendment, confession of sins without any omission, and satisfaction by means of good works.

Thomas Aquinas

Producing 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 Barrymore

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Pablo Picasso

Housework can't kill you but why take a chance?

Phyllis Diller

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Thomas A. Edison

My 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 Kalam

How unbearable at times are people who are happy people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

I think you're working and learning until you die.

J. K. Rowling

All 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 Camus

If there's any message to my work it is ultimately that it's OK to be different that it's good to be different that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different behaves different talks different is a different color.

Johnny Depp

When I work a game as an analyst all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Lou Holtz

You may be very wealthy and have servants and assistants to help in a few tasks but your own work you must do yourself.

Sai Baba

Well I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Eminem

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Thomas Aquinas

Sir Walter with his 61 years of life although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40 had fortunately for the world a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

Kim Kardashian

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Helen Hayes

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Thomas Merton

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Brian Tracy

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

H. L. Mencken

One and one is two and two and two is four and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Mae West

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Theodore Roosevelt

In a very real sense it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

John F. Kennedy

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work they have the talent to put those men back to work.

John F. Kennedy

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

Plan your work for today and every day then work your plan.

Margaret Thatcher

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

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

If 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 Romney

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground green.

Thomas Carlyle

The thing about the 600 words I mean some day you can do a very very very hard day's work and not write a word just revising or you would scribble a few words.

J. K. Rowling

I work very hard but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you I should say - I think it's important to be giving to return the love back.

Lady Gaga

The 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 Pope

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

Michael Jackson

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Norman Vincent Peale

Most works of art like most wines ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Simone Weil

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood all the work into middle age and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Mead

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

Abraham Lincoln

If 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 Allen

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

James Russell Lowell

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be ideal in every respect and then they work every day toward their distant vision that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

In 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 Bacon

I 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 Romney

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours so we can pay the bills, or do the laundry, or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Michelle Obama

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Tennessee Williams

Love and work... work and love that's all there is.

Sigmund Freud

There 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

Work joyfully and peacefully knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

James Allen

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror and you keep making faces all your life.

Bette Davis

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Earl Nightingale

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams and that took a hot second.

Alanis Morissette

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

Let there be work bread water and salt for all.

Nelson Mandela

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Angelina Jolie

I was called really horrible profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Lady Gaga

Now anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up you'll never see it.

Barack Obama

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Edward Hopper

Behold a worthy sight to which the God turning his attention to his own work may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing worthy of a God a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

Blessed is he who has found his work, let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Whatever your life's work is do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living the dead and the unborn could do it no better.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush, otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

Lucille Ball

Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Karl Marx

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter taller richer and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

P. J. O'Rourke

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Bob Dylan

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Will Rogers

Whether for life or death do your own work well.

John Ruskin

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Johnny Depp

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil to think is to do. The crossed arms work the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Victor Hugo

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

E. O. Wilson

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously but not themselves those who work hard and play hard.

Colin Powell

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Thomas Carlyle

Of all the things I've done the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Walt Disney

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

Barack Obama

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Henry Rollins

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

John Keats

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

P. J. O'Rourke

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men who are, after all, imperfect instruments working for their fulfillment.

Mahatma Gandhi

The world we see, that seems so insane, is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

William James

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis

Once you start a working on something don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Chanakya

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect, and the love, and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers our sisters our children our cousins our friends our co-workers and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Barack Obama

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like although that was part of it. Primarily it was how it worked. To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something chew it up not just quickly swallow it.

Steve Jobs

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work " because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Andy Warhol

Amidst all the clutter beyond all the obstacles aside from all the static are the goals set. Put your head down do the best job possible let the flak pass and work towards those goals.

Donald Rumsfeld

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

To work hard to live hard to die hard and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Helen Keller

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Thomas Carlyle

I'm having fun because I don't take it (life) seriously - the only things I care about are my family friends work and my lady Sally. Philosophers for a long time have said 'why are we here?' - I'm here for the entertainment. If you're born in the world you're given a ticket to the freak show, if you're born in America you get a front row seat.

George Carlin

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

Individuality is founded in feeling, and the recesses of feeling the darker blinder strata of character are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making and directly perceive how events happen and how work is actually done.

William James

Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.

Paul Ryan

Every man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Bill Cosby

Our environment the world in which we live and work is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Earl Nightingale

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers the best of them in doubt and misery the most in plodding hesitation doing as well as they can what practical work lies at hand.

John Ruskin

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Meister Eckhart

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

George W. Bush

For his heart was in his work and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All great art is the work of the whole living creature body and soul and chiefly of the soul.

John Ruskin

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Abdul Kalam

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles but producing them. They live by work not trade.

John Ruskin

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and demonstrations for impressions.

John Ruskin

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

Marilyn Monroe

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Samuel Butler

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah sure I'm still optimistic I mean I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Steve Jobs

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

Drew Barrymore

As for me prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Katharine Hepburn

I still work out on a daily basis.

Clint Eastwood

Deprived of meaningful work men and women lose their reason for existence, they go stark raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Albert Ellis

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Michelle Obama

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Nelson Mandela

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age I do not want to give it up, I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Michelangelo

I work to stay alive.

Bette Davis

The bottom line is when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities not only are they many times more productive they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Stephen Covey

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Tupac Shakur

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did why in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Will Rogers

Well all comedy starts with anger. You get angry and its never for a good reason right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Jerry Seinfeld

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art a scientific theory a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Aldous Huxley

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Will Rogers

As president Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations but he also raised taxes when necessary.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self and, at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Mitt Romney

We work to become not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard
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