work
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.”
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
“We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product.”
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
“Success is dependent on effort.”
“It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
“In Europe, an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.”
“The shortest answer is doing.”
“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down; and he that has no cross deserves no crown.”
“You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are. Get a life.”