“If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him - speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”
ELBERT HUBBARD“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with joy but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple, and take alms from them who work with joy.”
KHALIL GIBRAN“For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. A lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.”
IRA GLASS“Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.”
PAUL COFFEY“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”
MARIO CUOMO“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
ISAK DINESEN [KAREN BLIXEN]“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
RAINER MARIA RILKE“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. ”
MOTHER TERESA“Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together. ”
TONY DUNGY“Helping, fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.”
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN“I want to live long enough see the day the people in this world put aside their differences and work hand in hand to achieve that state of acceptance of themselves and their surroundings, also known as PEACE.”
NADIA KELIFA“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.”
JAMES ALLEN“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
JAMES M. BARRIE“In the final analysis, there is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed.”
CLAIRE BOOTH LUCE“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”
EMILY BRONTË“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
RITA MAE BROWN“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.”
PEARL S. BUCK“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
THOMAS CARLYLE“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
CALVIN COOLIDGE“The artist must be an egotist because, like the spider, he draws all his building material from his own breast. But just the same the artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.”
RHETA CHILDE DORR“There is no substitute for hard work.”
THOMAS EDISON