An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

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

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

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

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

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

Work alone is noble.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

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

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.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Work is much more fun than fun.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Without labor nothing prospers.