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.
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 JeffersonBe a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
BuddhaWork 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 CarlinArdently 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 AustenThis 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 MarxHard 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 CarlinI'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 MarxFor 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 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 HillNever 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 GagaHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo MachiavelliFollow 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 VinciAll 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 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 AguileraAmerican 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 BarryCompany 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 CiceroGod 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 HazlittWork 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.
SophoclesThe 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 RussellLet us perform heroic deeds by working together,
Sai BabaLook 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 WhitmanMan 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 DawkinsFree enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul RyanMan, 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 AngelouThe 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 SchillerAll of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsWhat 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.
HeraclitusAn ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mahatma GandhiMen 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 MandelaGod never wrought miracles to convince atheism because his ordinary works convince it.
Francis BaconThe 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 ScottAmerica 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 WilsonAll 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 GatesIt's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis CarrollLet 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 TwainDespite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
Stephen CoveyGod respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath TagoreI 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 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 TeresaI 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 GandhiPart of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac AsimovIt'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 HesseThere 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 TeresaMature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
Deepak ChopraFind 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 ThoreauGod 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 BarrymoreI'm the true definition of a workaholic.
Kim KardashianYour 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 JobsFar and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore RooseveltTeamwork 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 TracyThere 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 ChekhovAll 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 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 DeppSir 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 DoyleI love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.
Kim KardashianAll 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.
PlatoCommunication 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 TracyLeave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore RooseveltIn 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. KennedyWe 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. KennedyYou 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 FranceIf 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 RomneyI 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 GagaThe 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 PopeI 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 JacksonThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordIf 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 RomneyOriginal Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell
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 HillGood actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette DavisBehold 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 SenecaWhatever 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.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 DylanYou 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