“You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.”– Mahalia Jackson Related Quotes “I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”– Carl Sandburg “It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I’d rather spend my energy smiling.”– Eric Davis “You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.”– Paul McCartney