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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. – Thomas Sowell

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. – Theodore Roosevelt

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

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. – Margaret Thatcher

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else. – Charlie Sheen

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. – Bill Cosby

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. – Steve Jobs

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. – Theodore Roosevelt

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

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it. – Mae West

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. – Theodore Roosevelt

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. – Stephen King

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. – Frederick Douglass

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. – Mitt Romney

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work. – Plato

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. – Colin Powell

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded. – Barack Obama

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. – Voltaire

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work. – Thomas A. Edison

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. – Arthur Conan Doyle