“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
– Thomas Aquinas
“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“It is possible to demonstrate God’s existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.”
– Thomas Aquinas
“At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you’re not in the right place where you need to be, then you’re going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.”
– Mehmet Oz
“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
– Eugene Delacroix
“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.”
– Oscar Hammerstein II
“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.”
– Peter McWilliams
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”
– Jackie Kennedy
“If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.”
– Ben Stein
“Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.”
– Ann Coulter
“Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.”
– Ramakrishna
“People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.”
– William Hazlitt
“A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.”
– Imelda Staunton
“For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.”
– Mark Zuckerberg
“You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I’m going to work every single day, I don’t think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!”
– Mindy Kaling
“What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I’m a good person to society. That’s hard. The talent, that’s a gift. I just came here like that.”
– Erykah Badu
“The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.”
– David Herbert Lawrence
“That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.”
– Lukas Foss
“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
– Marc Anthony
“I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.”
– Paula Deen
“Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.”
– Alex Rodriguez
“I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.”
– Beatrice Wood
“Hard work – I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn’t fly. It’s all in the practice. It does take work and it ain’t easy – but man, the rewards!”
– Susan Powter
“All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.”
– Ben Affleck
“The greatest weariness comes from work not done.”
– Eric Hoffer
“We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.”
– Mary Kay Ash
“Being a mother is quite tiring. There’s not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it’s hard work.”
– Kirsty Gallacher
“Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.”
– Donald Rumsfeld
“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.”
– Moliere