“Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”

“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.”

“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.”

“Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'”

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”

“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”

“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.”

“I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.”