1. 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. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. - Vincent Van Gogh
3. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison
4. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
6. A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Albert Camus
7. I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view. - Elon Musk
8. Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. - Lucille Ball
9. Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard. - George Lucas
10. The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. - Jonas Salk
11. Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. - Dmitri Mendeleev
12. Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. - Mark Twain
13. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. - Henry David Thoreau
14. It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. - Benjamin Franklin
15. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde
16. Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou
17. The end of labor is to gain leisure. - Aristotle
18. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. - Theodore Roosevelt
19. My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. - Eleanor Roosevelt
. The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan
21. The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato
22. The pay is good and I can walk to work. - John F. Kennedy
23. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vince Lombardi
24. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi
25. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. - Vince Lombardi
26. I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. - Walt Disney
27. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. - Khalil Gibran
28. There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. - Henry Ford
29. Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. - Mother Teresa
30. There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. - Mother Teresa
31. Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. - Albert Camus
32. The idea of having a steady job is appealing. - Robin Williams
33. 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
34. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost
35. To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. - Robert Frost
36. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. - Stephen Hawking
37. Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. - Napoleon Hill
38. Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. - Pablo Picasso
39. It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. - Pablo Picasso
40. A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. - Peter Drucker
41. Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker
42. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. - Rumi
43. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. - Rumi
44. Labor gives birth to ideas. - Jim Rohn
45. There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas A. Edison
46. 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
47. What you are will show in what you do. - Thomas A. Edison
48. I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. - Thomas A. Edison
49. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. - Coco Chanel
50. I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it. - Margaret Thatcher
51. I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. - Joseph Campbell
52. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Unknown
53. All wealth is the product of labor. - John Locke
54. 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
55. Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. - Booker T. Washington
56. When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. - Calvin Coolidge
57. I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. - Ray Bradbury
58. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank
59. We work to become, not to acquire. - Elbert Hubbard
60. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. - Elbert Hubbard
61. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
62. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach
63. 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. - Gloria Steinem
64. Quality is everyone's responsibility. - W. Edwards Deming
65. Quality is pride of workmanship. - W. Edwards Deming
66. Without labor nothing prospers. - Sophocles
67. I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. - Neil Armstrong
68. I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. - Neil Armstrong
69. Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. - Thomas Carlyle
70. Every noble work is at first impossible. - Thomas Carlyle
71. Work alone is noble. - Thomas Carlyle
72. All things are difficult before they are easy. - Thomas Fuller
73. Management is nothing more than motivating other people. - Lee Iacocca
74. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns
75. Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. - Horace
76. Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. - Chanakya
77. 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
78. My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in. - Rose Kennedy
79. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. - Milton Friedman
80. Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. - Mary Kay Ash
81. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert
82. By the work one knows the workman. - Jean de La Fontaine
83. Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with. - Stevie Wonder
84. The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. - Charles Kettering
85. To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. - John Dewey
86. Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. - A. A. Milne
87. Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? - J. Paul Getty
88. There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. - J. Paul Getty
89. If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. - Ogden Nash
90. I work to stay alive. - Bette Davis
91. To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. - Bette Davis
92. Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. - Ann Richards
93. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. - Will Smith
94. The harder I work, the luckier I get. - Samuel Goldwyn
95. No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. - Samuel Goldwyn
96. Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. - Samuel Butler
97. Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith
98. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. - Ray Kroc
99. I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. - Louis C. K.
100. Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile. - Ellen Ochoa
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