Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore RooseveltI do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.
David BowieA man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack ObamaOne of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.
Keanu ReevesThe Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.
Pope FrancisAll paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
AristotleThe work is the work. The work is not me.
Frank OceanTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda MeirWhether for life or death, do your own work well.
John RuskinI never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt DisneyBob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.
Bob MarleySometimes it’s Tune-berg, sometimes Thunn-berg. I mean, I think it’s funny that everyone pronounces it differently. So, that is just – I don’t mind anyone pronouncing it wrong. There’s no wrong way to pronounce it. Everyone pronounces it in their own way.
Greta ThunbergBetter the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John RuskinOutsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.
Stephen CoveyI wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
Albert SchweitzerWe’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.
Stephen CurryWhat I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
David BowieGreat is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Dylan ThomasYou will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
John C. MaxwellI like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
Clint EastwoodMy share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen KellerWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
Tennessee WilliamsLaziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne FrankBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas CarlyleWork consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark TwainTo understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand RussellBig pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon HillThis character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.
Adam SandlerI think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.
Paul AusterThe best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul SartreESPN is a great organization to work for.
Lou HoltzMy 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 AngelouIn my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.
Paul AusterWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. ForbesPeople who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.
Paul AusterWhat a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
VoltaireI have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Hunter S. ThompsonThis desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWork 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 GibranMy work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
Lady GagaThe reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert FrostSocialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.
Robert KiyosakiLabor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham LincolnSome people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
Frank OceanIf all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.
Jocko WillinkI don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody AllenI like to work.
Abby Lee MillerWhen you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil GibranTurn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
B. C. ForbesIn action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur SchopenhauerWithout work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert CamusMiracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. LewisWork is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand RussellA 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 CamusDespite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
Stephen CoveyIf 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 HemingwayAs a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.
Robert Frost