I have worked ever since I was 13.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Our work is never over.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn’t my environment.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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%.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

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.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I focus on my own job.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

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.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

I’ve worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It’s not that long ago. I like to think that I’m just a regular guy.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

The right-wingers don’t want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

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.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.