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 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 CowperI 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 KardashianNever permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo PicassoI'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 GagaThe 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 ZiglarLife is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da VinciBeset 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 VinciAmerican 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 BarryWhen 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 TeresaLook 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 KalamWhat 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 ShakespeareA dream doesn't become reality through magic, it takes sweat determination and hard work.
Colin PowellGod respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath TagorePutting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Paul McCartneyIt's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
Alanis MorissetteKnowledge 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 CoolidgeYour 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 KalamHow unbearable at times are people who are happy people for whom everything works out.
Anton ChekhovWell I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!
EminemGet 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 NightingaleIf 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 AllenI 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 RomneyI 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