Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

[Prime Minister Joseph] Chamberlain loves the working man: he loves to see him work.

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.

I have not failed, I've found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

I entered the office and tossed my hat at the coat rack. It missed, hit the heater, and instantly burst into flames. That reminded me: I had some work to do in Windows.

How do I work? I grope.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I like work ... I can sit and watch it for hours.

One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Work is more fun than fun.

Yes! The sad pathetic mutiny-inducing puppy face worked!

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance?" - Ronald Reagan

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Goal achievement is hero's work.

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.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

Jimmy: "You know what's weird?" Dawn: "How Jello works?

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Men and women, women and men; it will never work.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.

The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.