I have worked ever since I was 13.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

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

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

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.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

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

Our work is never over.

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

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

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

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

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.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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.

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.

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

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

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

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

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

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.

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.

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.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

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.

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.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

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

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.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.