Work Quotes

Work Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barack Obama, Jamais Cascio, Henry Latham Doherty, Huey Long, Danilo Dolci and many others.

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,’ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‘Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.
A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work, the pride that makes business an art.
Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
Danilo Dolci
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .
Anything is possible if you’re willing to work for it.
It gets late early out there.
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
Nothing will work unless you do.
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies – in the minds of those closest to the work.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
Work is what you do so that sometime you won’t have to do it anymore.
Alfred Polgar
Men now monopolize the upper levelsdepriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Good work has a snowball effect, it keeps leading to more good work.
When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
Never let your inferiors do you a favor – it will be extremely costly.
When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.
Jeff Cox
CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.
J. P. McEvoy
You are not your resume, you are your work.
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
How Sunday into Monday melts!
I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.
Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
The longer the title, the less important the job.
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
I put the gold star up in the front window
beside the flag. Alterations is what I know
and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.
I’m the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
Canadians shouldn’t come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.
Stanley Ralph Ross
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else–we are the busiest people in the world.
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It’s the perfect job.
Play is the work of childhood.
As I’ve always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you’ve done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.
Black people have been working hard for decades.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.
I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working.
Irving Caesar
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
… it is the work and not the reward that is precious.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Do things for others and you’ll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
The name of our proper connection to the earth is ‘good work,’ for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. ‘Too bad that didn’t work.’ ‘I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you.’ We need to separate the deed from the doer.
I don’t have hobbies. I have passions.
The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun‘s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
I don’t believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I’m working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
Deirdre O’Kane
Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.
Blaine Nye
I make bean stalks, I’m A builder, like yourself.
If a woman‘s work is never done, she should start earlier.
Ron Stevens
You 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.
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it’s not for you.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
A gentlemansleeps at his work. That’s what work’s for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don’t normally use.
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what’s right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.
You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
It is work which gives flavor to life.
I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven‘t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.
Make the decision and say, “I’m not letting that worry in. I’m done being upset when my plans don’t work out. I’m not letting that stress in.” Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don’t have to let them into your spirit.
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
I think I know I’ve been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I’m working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I’VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, ‘IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?’
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
The formula is simple – do more of what is working, do less of what isn’t, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.
The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.
I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
A career is a job that has gone on too long.
I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you’re working at.
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.
Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Someone has to do everything that is done.
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing – then a work of art may happen.
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Get leave to work In this world,–‘tis the best you get at all.
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.
It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.
Work alone is noble.
How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers–to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can’t quite have it all, but that hasn’t stopped us from wanting it all for them.
Working gets in the way of living.
It’s easier to be ignorant and say I don’t know about the problem. But once you know, once you’ve seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Sexual harassment at work… is it a problem for the self-employed?
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
It is useless work that darkens the heart.
Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.
My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on.
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
I don’t like work… but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
Labor is God’s education.
I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don’t go out on strike because then there’s no work and no potential of work.
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Don’t mistake activity with achievement.
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,–the most unwholesome of food.
We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us
No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
Whatever 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.
I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss‘s head.
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!
So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
There’s nothing but what’s bearable as long as a man can work…. The square o’ four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man’s miserable as when he’s happy; and the best o’ working is, it gives you a grip hold o’ things outside your own lot.
The law of attraction is always working whether you believe it or understand it or not.
I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
Phillip Sweet
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you’re being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you’re putting positive energy into the world, and you’re appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it’ll work out.
Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the work he does. When there is no feeling to accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.
Joe Whitney
A leader‘s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
All 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.
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.
I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.
None but those who work are entitled to eat.
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
Dreams do come true if you work hard and you get your head down.
It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
You’re not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.
The right man can make a good job out of any job.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.
Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.
The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
If one defines the term ‘dropout’ to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.
Boy, the things I do for England.
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
I believe that good things come to those who work.
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
The man who didn’t want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
My dad said, ‘Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.’ My mom said, ‘Always be yourself.’ She always told me only God can judge me.
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it’s own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one’s thoughts.
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.
I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Breaks balance out. The sun don’t shine on the same ol’ dog‘s ass every day.
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
Robert Henry Grant
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn’t particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you’ll soon be defeated by tribesВ of people who work for a cause.
Your life’s work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
I don’t know why my lines that were cut from the film didn’t make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I’m kidding. I’m only trying to help.
As long as you’re getting along, it’s nice to work with someone you know well.
I will keep working hard!
A guy gave me a job at an information booth – no questions asked.
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
They’s making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse.
What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What … in a barber shop? … Much. All.
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man’s life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.
I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
He’s too short, he’s too… tall, he’s… just not going to work.
I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I’m constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn’t that what’s important?
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Neglect mending a small fault and ’twill soon be a great one.
Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn’t work in the Bird’s Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?
I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
If you don’t have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it’s begun.
A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that’s why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.
As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
It’s not so much what the job gives you, it’s what you give to the job.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.
All wealth is the product of labor.
Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers!
Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
Doing stunt work is risky, but it’s something I enjoy.
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it–perhaps even more.
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best.В  You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.
One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
I am really excited and thankful for opportunity to work with Cotto Promotions, Tidal and Roc Nation.
That’s the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact it’s more an art form than it is a science, and you have to continually work the problem, continually try.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
I’ve worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there’s no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.
I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
no job, no matter how lowly, is trulyunskilled.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There’s so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you’ll find a way to do what you love.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can’t make you feel shame without your participation.
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Work like you don’t need the money.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
True Work is the necessity of poor humanity‘s earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
A man has got to keep his extrication.
The important thing is not to get bogged down
In what he has to do to earn a living.
Oh, yes. I’d do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
Francoise Bertaut de Motteville
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.
The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression…Only a few truly love it.
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
Don’t put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.
I was studying acting in New York, and wasn’t being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you’ve heard of the concept. It’s called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.
I’m not a good listener some times. I’m too much of a control freak. I’m learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
I’m doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I’m really grateful to have something that I’m passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
Work first, and then rest.
God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they’ve done for our family.
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry
John Jensen
Work, work, work, is the main thing.
Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.
We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it’s through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.
Intellectual ”work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
I’m not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.
I know people dont think I work.
It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‘All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.’
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
We’re getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it’s not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don’t think they can be treated. An employer says, ‘I don’t want to hire somebody with a disorder.
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.
People who work hard often work too hard. … May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
Quality is pride of workmanship.
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not…
My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
Don’t worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.
It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.
Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
A human being isn’t meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn’t just for work.
it’s immoral to work to make money. There’s something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm – then it makes money.
What I’m doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It’s like anything else. The only time it doesn’t really feel like work to me is when I’m on stage and doing what I’ve prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There’s no formulas. It’s all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.
Drank a lot of take home pay.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don’t take anything too seriously, it’ll all work out in the end.
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.
Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you’ve got into it.
Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.
It’s mainly about working hard and proving to people you’re serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they’re the finished articles, the bee‘s knees, and it’s not true.
Give no man sympathy because he has to work – it is his blessing that he can.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
I owe my success to all my teammates. It is the result of the team work.
In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your ‘contribution to the firm‘s assets.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
When 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?
For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.
My best film is always my next film. I couldn’t make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I’ve forgotten how I did it. I don’t believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love.
Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.
If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.
Steny Hoyer
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
Patience is also a form of action.
It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
William Gurney Benham
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Rise up, you suckers, and go out and do the work of Jesus!
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them
J. Harold Smith
Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but
how to get old ones out.
Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba—outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another—before interdigitating with related ideas.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness.
Salvador Bernal
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
When men are employed they are best contented.
The work of a man is the explanation of the man.
There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.
Armin Hofmann
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?
It’s important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you’re working towards. You create your own life, it’s not set out there for you.
Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.
I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don’t work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do – writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information – is pure joy. It’s what I was called to do.
It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it’s your job to earn it.
A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: ‘They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man – and then expect us to act like a lady.
In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
I’ve worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I’ve also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it’s important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I’ve been helped a lot in my life.
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.
You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you’ll achieve it.
The world’s pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You’ll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn’t do.
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that’s like three people getting together to have a baby.
Failure has gone to his head.
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.
Give a civil servant a good case and he’ll wreck it with clichГ©s, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind‘s supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
The letter of application … should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
One curator said he didn’t want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!
Ted Harrison
Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: ‘I am rising to a man’s work.’
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles… unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing… better than to follow nature.
Caravaggio
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation… Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.
Just because you’re part of ‘Twilight‘ does not mean you’re a superstar. It means that you’re given the opportunity to maybe become one later if you work hard. Once fandom goes away, which it will very soon, it’s all about having your priorities straight and working hard.
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher‘s actions.
Stephen Brookfield
Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.
Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
What 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.
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating.
You will have ups and downs – but believe anything is possible. With hard work, it can come off.
If a guy doesn’t work hard and doesn’t play well, he can’t lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun’s hot eye, With heads bent o’er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.
I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can’t vote.
Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.
If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
The insignificant labor, the great create.
If you don’t find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.
I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.
Michel Petrucciani
Don’t say yes until I’ve finished talking. – Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.
Max O’Rell
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be “a hand, not a mouth“; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you’d get noticed.
We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizontally in our company, not vertically. Products are horizontal. It takes hardware plus software plus services to make a killer product.
The 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.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn’t fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
Without work all life goes rotten.
If the vegan diet doesn’t work out for you, at least you can do something for animals – whether that’s the way you eat or the way you dress, everything helps, really.
Idolizing is a strong word, though. I’m happy that people respond well to the work I’m doing now. If anyone admires what I’m doing in any way, then I’m really proud of it.
As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it’s true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.