I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. – Lucille Ball
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! – Og Mandino
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. – Orison Swett Marden
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. – Thomas Carlyle
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. – T. S. Eliot
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. – Gustave Flaubert
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. – Edmund Burke
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. – Orison Swett Marden
Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. – Helen Hayes
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. – Peter Drucker
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. – H. L. Hunt
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. – W. E. B. Du Bois
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. – Orison Swett Marden
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. – W. Clement Stone
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. – Temple Grandin
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. – Carl Sandburg
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. – Maxim Gorky
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words. – Albert Schweitzer
