If 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 PratchettWishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
AristotlePleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
AristotleBe a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
BuddhaIf 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.
BuddhaA 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 AustenNo 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 GibranThe first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John RuskinAll 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 KardashianI'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
Lady GagaFollow 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.
AristotleHow 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 LimbaughAll the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl JungMan - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark TwainWork is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar WildeIn 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 BarryHe does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus Tullius CiceroGod works wonders now and then, Behold a lawyer an honest man.
Benjamin FranklinBetter 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 TwainEvil 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 GibranOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand RussellLet us perform heroic deeds by working together,
Sai BabaThe 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. RockefellerOf 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 GibranI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt WhitmanMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma GandhiI 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 AngelouIf 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 DawkinsThe 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 AngelouWithout 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 JungWe are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin FranklinIt 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 WoodsEven sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
HeraclitusAn ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma GandhiIf 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 CoelhoI put all my genius into my life, I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar WildeA 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 JobsAll paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
AristotleThe profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.
John SteinbeckAs 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 AngelouWhatever work we do, whatever sacrifices we perform, they are not of much use in the absence of love.
Sai BabaPutting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Paul McCartneyIn 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 WalkerYour 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 JobsI 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 ObamaThere 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 KalamCommunication 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 TracyIf 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 RomneyIf 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 AllenAll 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 TracyI 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 RomneyIt 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 ObamaWork joyfully and peacefully knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
James AllenThose 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 TracyI'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