“I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.”

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”

“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.”

“It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.”

“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”

“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?”

“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.”

“Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.”

“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”

“People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.”

“Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.”

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”

“The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'”

“I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.”

“A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.”

“I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.”

“Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.”

“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.”

“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.”

“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.”