Work Quotes
“The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?”
“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.”
-- Lucille Ball
“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.”
-- Ramakrishna
“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.”
-- Barack Obama
“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.”
-- Susan B. Anthony
“Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'”
-- Henry Miller
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
-- Colin Powell