The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
- Jane Sellman
It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life [that] those who work the hardest,
who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things
in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people.
- Brutus Hamilton
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- Bette Davis
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve through not dying.
- Woody Allen
I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.
- Charles Horace Mayo 1865-1939 American surgeon and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals.
The most important things in life are human relations.
I found that out too late.
- Katharinde Susannah Prichard Australian Author
Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing,
that love of work is success.
- David O. McKay
You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do.
But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive.
They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.
- Carisa Bianchi TBWA/CHIAT/DAY San Francisco, in Fast Company
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to
reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place
in a portion of reality, in the human community.
- Sigmund Freud
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
- Ogden Nash
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it Autograph your work with excellence.
- Unknown
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth
- Carl Sandburg
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated,
no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
- Napoleon Hill
Vision is where tomorrow begins, for it expresses what you and others who
share the vision will be working hard to create. Since most people don't
take the time to think systematically about the future, those who do, and
who base their strategies and actions on their visions, have inordinate
power to shape the future.
- Burt Nanus
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost (1874-1963) American poet
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a
chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy
- Bette Davis
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
- David Bly
All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.
- Marsha Sinetar
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people:
those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
- Indira Gandhi
When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures,
so I did ten times more work
- Bernard Shaw
Early to bed, early to rise Work like hell and advertise
- Ted Turner
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- J.M. Barrie
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein
I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
- Matthew Broderick
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
-Unknown
You've achieved success in your field when you dont know whether what youre doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear
-- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work.
The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
- A.L. Williams Businessman
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind
- Thomas Carlyle
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
- Jason Kidd upon being drafted to the Dallas Mavericks
When God wanted sponges and oysters, He made them and put one on a rock and
the other in the mud. When He made man, He did not make him to be a sponge
or an oyster; He made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and vital blood,
and a place to use them, and He said to him, Go Work.
- Henry Ward Beecher
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat.
Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart?
They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.
- Dr. Louis J. Camuti
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
- Henry Ford
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
- Dr. Allan Fromme
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic,
and to some extent even antibiotic--in short, the closest thing to a
genuine panacea--known to medical science is work.
- Thomas Szasz, M.D.
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