Vision is where tomorrow begins, for it expresses what you and others who share the vision will be working hard to create. Since most people don't take the time to think systematically about the future, those who do, and who base their strategies and actions on their visions, have inordinate power to shape the future.
- Burt Nanus

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
- Katharinde Susannah Prichard Australian Author

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
- Jane Sellman

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein

When God wanted sponges and oysters, He made them and put one on a rock and the other in the mud. When He made man, He did not make him to be a sponge or an oyster; He made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and vital blood, and a place to use them, and He said to him, Go Work.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic--in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea--known to medical science is work.
- Thomas Szasz, M.D.

You've achieved success in your field when you dont know whether what youre doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it Autograph your work with excellence.
- Unknown

You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.
- Carisa Bianchi TBWA/CHIAT/DAY San Francisco, in Fast Company

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.
- David O. McKay

It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life [that] those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people.
- Brutus Hamilton

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
- Napoleon Hill

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.
- Marsha Sinetar

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
- A.L. Williams Businessman

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
- Dr. Allan Fromme

When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work
- Bernard Shaw

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

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.
- Sigmund Freud

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- Bette Davis

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth
- Carl Sandburg

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
- David Bly

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
- Matthew Broderick

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
- Jason Kidd upon being drafted to the Dallas Mavericks

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
- Henry Ford

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- J.M. Barrie

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.
- Dr. Louis J. Camuti

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost (1874-1963) American poet

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy
- Bette Davis

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve through not dying.
- Woody Allen

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
- Ogden Nash

I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.
- Charles Horace Mayo 1865-1939 American surgeon and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)

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

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind
- Thomas Carlyle

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
-Unknown

Early to bed, early to rise Work like hell and advertise
- Ted Turner

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy