The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it. ~ Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. ~ Martin Van Buren

I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire--polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles--round and round--beginning and end--Alpha and Omega, amen. ~ Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ~ Thomas A. Bennett

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. ~ Nadia Comaneci

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought. ~ Sigmund Freud

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it. ~ William Shatner

If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. Ambition by itself never gets anywhere until it forms a partnership with work. ~ James Garfield

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working. ~ Don Shula

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change. ~ Jesse Jackson

One works without thinking how to work. ~ Jasper Johns

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