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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
— Barack Obama
Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
— Gray Scott
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
— Chanakya
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
— Margaret Thatcher
Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
— Tyler Perry
There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
— William Hague
Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.
— Deborah Mailman
From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.
— Luke Bryan
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
— Earl Nightingale
Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
— Randy Johnson
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
— Eckhart Tolle
All wealth is the product of labor.
— John Locke
Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
— Roger Staubach
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
— Peter Drucker
We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
— Yehuda Berg
Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter - don't just be good at one thing; be good at everything.
— Brock Lesnar
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
— Ralph Bunche
Good things happen to those who hustle.
— Chuck Noll
There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the nicest, most caring people in your field, get involved with charity work. The thankless hours that go into planning charity dinners, running a carnival, and gathering donations for silent auctions are noticed and appreciated.
— Jay Samit
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.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
— Tom Rath
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
— Nelson Mandela
In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.
— John Bytheway
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
— Adam Grant
One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.
— Travis Bradberry
Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.
— Kenny Chesney
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
— Thomas A. Edison
Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had.
— Justin Trudeau
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.
— Will Smith
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
— Francis of Assisi
Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
— Yehuda Berg
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
— Robert Frost
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
— Simon Cowell
I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.
— Fritz Scholder
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
— Colin Powell
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
— Joshua Waitzkin
I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.
— Michael Flatley
What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
— David Bowie
We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.
— Andy Biersack
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
— Marina Abramovic
God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
— James Dobson
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.
— Barack Obama
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
— Bette Davis
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
— Henri Matisse
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
— Walt Disney
Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of work accomplished, while others appear to be busy but never actually produce results? Time management is the key to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
— Clay Clark
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.
— James Lafferty
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.
— Ron Perlman
A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can. 
— Frederick W. Smith
Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.
— Serena Williams
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.
— Ludacris
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
— Patrick Demarchelier
Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floor. All of the pieces to work with are right there. A floor full of Legos is full of possibilities.
— Ricky Reed
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
— Thomas A. Edison
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.
— Demi Lovato
It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
— Jeff Bezos
I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.
— Alan Kulwicki
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
— Lee Iacocca
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. 
— Robert Frost
Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.
— Amy Jo Martin
My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
— Kendrick Lamar
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!
— Joyce Meyer
Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.
— Lewis Howes
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
— Margaret Thatcher
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.
— Simon Sinek
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
— Eugene Ionesco
There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.
— Lilly Singh
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
— Dylan Thomas
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
— Robert Kennedy
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain just work harder... Never give up. 
— Randy Pausch
Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.
— Martin Seligman
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.
— Michio Kaku
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
— Stephen Hawking
I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
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.
— Henry Ford
We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.
— Meghan Daum
Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life.
— Robert Mueller
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
— J. Paul Getty
Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I've had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.
— Ben Schnetzer
This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.
— Wayne Rooney
You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
— Haile Gebrselassie
Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.
— Sofia Vergara
The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.
— Marc Benioff
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
— Bear Grylls
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
— Walt Disney
I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.
— Berlie Doherty
I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.
— Janet Reno
Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.
— Randi Weingarten
While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.
— Robert E. Lee
I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
— Michael Phelps
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.
— William Shakespeare
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.
— Henry Rollins
Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.
— Marcus Samuelsson
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
— Leonardo da Vinci
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
— Eli Whitney
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
— Sigmund Freud
If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.
— Pitbull
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
— Richard Branson
You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
— Gabriel Iglesias
What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.
— Jason Robert Brown
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
— Junot Diaz
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
— Nick Cave
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
— Jonas Salk
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
— Mao Zedong
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
— Walt Disney
You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
— Sally Hawkins
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
— Bill Owens
Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
— Warren Buffett
Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
— Bill Flores
We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
— Yitzhak Rabin
All things are difficult before they are easy.
— Thomas Fuller
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.
— Hoda Kotb
The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.
— Michelle Obama
Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
— George Carlin
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
— Roger Staubach
You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
— Wayne Dyer
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
— Gillian Anderson
I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.
— Tim Tebow
If ballots won't work, bullets will.
— Malcolm X
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
— Johnny Cash
Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.
— Rodrigo Duterte
I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.
— Jim Brown
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
— David Bowie
Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.
— Anne Burrell
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
— George R. R. Martin
If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
— Audre Lorde
Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires forging a team that will work hard to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, stand up to the pressures of fame and fortune, and stay true to the original vision long after others stop believing.
— Jay Samit
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. 
— James A. Baldwin
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
— W. Clement Stone
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
— Fred Rogers
We're going to have to work. We're going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.
— Stephen Curry
No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
— Gene Roddenberry
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
— Abraham Lincoln
Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
— Ma Long
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.
— Nikola Tesla
Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
— Lionel Sosa
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
— Marie Curie
I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the NBA. I just want to influence them to work hard and do whatever they want to do in life, whether it's to be a basketball player or scientist... if they believe in themselves, they can do anything.
— Kawhi Leonard
I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.
— Teri Hatcher
Being a chef would be too much hard work.
— Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
— Saint Ignatius
I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.
— David Maisel
We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.
— Prince
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.
— Amy Adams
Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
— Tammy Duckworth
The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
— Alex Spanos
It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
— Mark Harmon
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
— Neil Armstrong
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'
— Jose Rizal
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
— Mitt Romney
I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?
— Hunter Hayes
Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
— Barack Obama
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
— Olivia Wilde
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
— Zinedine Zidane
In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
— Linda Fiorentino
Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.
— John Ortberg
If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
— Dallas Willard
Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
— Judith Martin
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
— Jesus Christ
What you are will show in what you do.
— Thomas A. Edison
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
— Willie Mays
Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.
— Nargis Fakhri
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. 
— Gregor Mendel
Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
— Ben Quayle
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
— Edmund Hillary
Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.
— Tia Mowry
Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
— Myles Munroe
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
— William Osler
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
— Ronald Reagan
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
— Antony Starr
In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.
— William Baldwin
It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.
— Pierce Brosnan
From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
— W. E. B. Du Bois
I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.
— Don Cheadle
Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.
— Justin Trudeau
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
— John D. Rockefeller
You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
— Jimmy Smits
All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside of that, you're not sure really what's going to happen. It's a funny game, but I think that's why I love it. You never know, one day to the next; you could go shoot 62, and the next day you're going to shoot 78, and you can't predict it.
— Rickie Fowler
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.
— Tim Burton
I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
— Jack Ma
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.
— Langston Hughes
For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
— Michelle Obama
What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed... but on cooperation... where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.
— Bernie Sanders
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
— George Halas
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
— Nikola Tesla
One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
— Ban Ki-moon
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
— Simone de Beauvoir
I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I'm not doing better.
— Kawhi Leonard
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
— Henry Ford
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
— David R. Brower
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
— Bill Pascrell
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
— James Cash Penney
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.
— Jim Valvano
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.
— Tom Petty
If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.
— Jim Jordan
We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.
— Apolo Ohno
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
— Henry David Thoreau
I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
— Mitch Hedberg
A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.
— David Burtka
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
— Natalie Gulbis
A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness and resiliency as apparent as a superhero-type female character or a warrior or soldier type. It's all about the story, the character, and the course of events in that piece of work and how that character is presented.
— Katherine McNamara
I prioritize in life. I like to work, I do TV shows, I do a lot of Iron Man training. I enjoy kicking back on a good night and drinking wine until I go to bed, and having fun with my friends. You just have to make time for it and keep it balanced.
— Joe Bastianich
Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It's a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them.
— Ivanka Trump
Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.
— Andrew Shue
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
— Susan B. Anthony
Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.
— Tawni O'Dell
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
— Henry Van Dyke
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
— B. C. Forbes
When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.
— Tom Petty
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
— Marianne Williamson
When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
— Justin Rosenstein
I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
— Shirley Jackson
When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.
— Marc Jacobs
I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.
— Steve Largent
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
— Jaron Lanier
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
— Angela Davis
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
— Emo Philips
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
— Lauryn Hill
I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
— Abhishek Bachchan
Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home.
— Tony Dungy
You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.
— Sara Sampaio
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
— Janis Joplin
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
— Wayne Gretzky
I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.
— Paul Biya
When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
— Larry David
If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.
— Will Smith
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.
— William J. Clinton
Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.
— Dustin Lynch
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.
— Tyler Perry
I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.
— Miley Cyrus
Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.
— Shakira
I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
— Dakota Johnson
I think for anybody, regardless of what industry you work in, when you get a new job, and it's progressive in terms of your career, that is one of the best feelings in the world.
— Will Poulter
It's a great feeling when your work is appreciated.
— Jacqueline Fernandez
Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.
— Dominick Cruz
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
— Gerald R. Ford
Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
— Venus Williams
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
— Andrew Carnegie
I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
— M. F. Husain
People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.
— Tiger Woods
Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
— Harsha Bhogle
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
— David Niven
My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore.
— Virat Kohli
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
— Louis Nizer
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.
— Frank Gehry
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
— Ban Ki-moon
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
— Saskya Pandita
Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
— Paul Simon
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
— Sam Ewing
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
— Kevin Kelly
My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.
— Mike Rowe
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
— George Sand
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
— Richard Bach
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
— Viktor E. Frankl
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
— Stephen Covey
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
— Christian Lous Lange
Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.
— Peter Diamandis
I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.
— Katherine Johnson