The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. – John Dewey
Every person born into this world their work is born with them. – James Russell Lowell
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. – Michel de Montaigne
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention. – Pope John XXIII
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. – Bette Davis
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. – Alvin Ailey
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. – Samuel Butler
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castenada
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. – Samuel Butler
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. – Jerome K. Jerome
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. – Carl Sandburg
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. – Gore Vidal
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. – Gertrude Stein
If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. – P. T. Barnum
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. – Jose Marti
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. – Thomas Huxley
But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. – Henry Rollins
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. – William Moulton Marston
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. – Robert Half
