Work alone is noble.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Work 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.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

I like to work.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

There is spontaneity to my work.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Nobody is my boss.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

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.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.