1. If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan

2. You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.' - Joe Biden 

3. 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 

4. It is better to imitate ancient than modern work. - Leonardo da Vinci 

5. Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control. - Amelia Earhart 

6. Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. - Susan B. Anthony 

7. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 8. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie 

9. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. - Pele 

10. I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. - Naomi Campbell 

11. I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm. - Naomi Campbell 

12. Every hour of useful work is precious. - William Lyon Mackenzie King 

13. I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work. - Mary Quant 

14. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau 

15. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin 

16. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou 

17. 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 

18. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle 

19. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. - Mahatma Gandhi 

20. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. - Plato 

21. 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 

22. If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. - Donald Trump 

23. 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 

24. Go see 'Hidden Figures,' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best, and are prepared. - Katherine Johnson 

25. If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. - Ernest Hemingway 

26. Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. - Walt Disney 

27. Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that. - George Carlin 

28. I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience. - Robin Williams 

29. 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 Baldwin 

30. Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. - Saint Augustine 

31. See, winners embrace hard work. - Lou Holtz 

32. Our work is never over. - Kanye West 

33. Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori 

34. We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. - Maria Montessori 

35. The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference. - Maria Montessori 

36. When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. - Maria Montessori 

37. Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. - Margaret Thatcher 

38. No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex. - Susan B. Anthony 

39. Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. - Susan B. Anthony 

40. The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. - George Eliot 

41. There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance. - Cesar Chavez 

42. 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 

43. Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 

44. With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out. - Elon Musk 

45. It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work. - Jeff Bezos 

46. The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes. - Robert Baden-Powell 

47. I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing. - Clint Eastwood 

48. Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. - Salvador Dali 

49. Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. - Nikola Tesla 

50. To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me. - David Bowie 

51. Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. - Pope Francis 

52. 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 

53. I always try to do as much as I can do. I'm never a person that does not enough, because I'd regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn't work. - Tom Brady 

54. New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. - Kurt Vonnegut 

55. Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off. - Kevin Hart 

56. 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 

57. All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth. - Paramahansa Yogananda 

58. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. - Earl Nightingale 

59. I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time. - Michael Phelps 

60. Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture. - Ellen DeGeneres 

61. We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. - Saint Francis de Sales 

62. Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. - Bruce Springsteen 

63. There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that. - Derek Jeter 

64. Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. - Fyodor Dostoevsky 

65. When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission. - Ezra Taft Benson 

66. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. - Ezra Taft Benson

67. 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 

68. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. - Newt Gingrich

69. Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. - Vaclav Havel 

70. I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work. - Frank Ocean 

71. 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 

72. I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough. - Naomi Campbell 

73. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. - Linus Torvalds 

74. The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information. - August Wilson 

75. Every step of my career was hard work. - Virgil van Dijk

76. 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 

77. So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don't want to leave it. And as a result, I'll go for days and days and days without leaving my house. - Harper Lee 

78. We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work. - Alvin Ailey 

79. Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots. - Corita Kent 

80. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire teammates and customers. - Robin S. Sharma 

81. Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done. - Robin S. Sharma 

82. The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them. - Roy Lichtenstein 

83. Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. - Steve Wozniak 

84. What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing. - Hugh Jackman 

85. For me, I'm an American and I'm a Mexican. I live here. And it hurts me the way a lot of people talk about Mexicans when I know we're all about hard work and dedication. - Andy Ruiz Jr. 

86. Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better chance of connecting with future generations than those who simply follow transient trends. At least their work will have a distinctive character, and this is what people respond to, I believe. - Giorgio Armani 

87. Love what you do. There's always going to be someone else who's smarter than you, but there's no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart. - Ivanka Trump 

88. 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 

89. No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. - William Glasser 

90. Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena. - Ivan Pavlov 

91. I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they're impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams. - Katie Ledecky 

92. As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain. - Maryanne Wolf 

93. I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience. - Maryanne Wolf 

94. These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations. - Susan Collins 

95. No clean energy development is complete without extensive environmental protections, and I've been proud to work in a bipartisan fashion with my colleagues in Congress to protect our most precious natural resources. - Elise Stefanik 

96. Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever. - Mike Krieger 

97. I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work. - Jerry Rice 

98. I think I work much the same way I always have. I'm trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I'm reading the brief or article, or listening to the music, and deciding where that sends me, and what would it look like. - David Carson 

99. I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work. - Markus Persson 

100. A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood. - J. J. Watt