The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
Albert EinsteinAction 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 HubbardMotivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
Benjamin FranklinI 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 LincolnIf 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 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 WinfreyThe goal of war is peace, of business leisure.
AristotleHard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Oscar WildeThe end of labor is to gain leisure.
AristotleWhen 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 WildeAbsence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William CowperA man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar WildeIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinFollow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
BuddhaLife 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 VinciWhat 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 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. RooseveltThe miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.
Mother TeresaThe moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar WildeMan becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma GandhiIf 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 DawkinsMan, 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 SteinbeckWhen 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 FranklinAll of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsI 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 WoodsAn 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 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 ScottDesign 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 JobsAmerica 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.
AristotleGod 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 GatesLet 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 only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel AdamsThe 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 TwainDespite 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 GandhiThe eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin FranklinNothing will work unless you do.
Maya AngelouOur 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 TeresaIntelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Richard DawkinsThere 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 TeresaI 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 JordanYour 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 KalamIf 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 RomneyWorkers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx