“Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.”
– Ralph Marston
“In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.”
– Wendell Willkie
“I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.”
– David Bowie
“I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.”
– Hank Aaron
“When I was younger I probably didn’t understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm’s distance and that’s not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.”
– Debra Winger
“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
– M. C. Escher
“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
“The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.”
– Gabriel Heatter
“You musn’t force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.”
– Mary McCarthy
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
– Stephen Leacock
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”
– Jerry West
“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.”
– David Bowie
“Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life’s work.”
– Thomas S. Monson
“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
– Thornton Wilder
“Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.”
– Soichiro Honda
“As Americans, we don’t see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.”
– Rick Perry
“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.”
– Magic Johnson
“We’ve got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.”
– Pete Coors
“So this is the space during tutoring hours. It’s very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students’ work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.”
– Dave Eggers
“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.”
– Constantin Brancusi
“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
“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”
– Simone Weil
“I don’t have anything to say about other people’s art and their work.”
– Dolly Parton
“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
– Simone Weil
“If you start to disrespect the character you’re playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it’s all technique. It’s like watching a juggler – you can be impressed by it, but it’s not going to touch you in any way.”
– Steve Coogan
“People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.”
– Evander Holyfield
“My wife, whenever I’d go off to work and I’d be kind of anxious, she’ll say, ‘Remember, have fun.’ Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there’s a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.”
– Jeff Bridges
“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”
– Dylan Thomas
“Will it, and set to work briskly.”
– Friedrich Schiller
“I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.”
– Gustave Flaubert