Working 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 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 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 AustenNo man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho MarxThe goal of war is peace, of business leisure.
AristotleMost 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.
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 WildeIf it requires a uniform it's a worthless endeavor
George CarlinWith 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 GibranIt 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 JohnsonI'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 MachiavelliThe 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 KellerFollow 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 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 VinciWork is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar WildeAmerican 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 BarryBetter the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John RuskinAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinThe moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar WildeThe greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael JacksonMemory 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 MauroisI 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 AngelouMy 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 AngelouYour 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 Romney