There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

This stock-market thing was a great game, but, after all, everybody just can't live on gambling. Somebody has to do some work.

- Will Rogers

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

- Steve Jobs

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

- Pat Schroeder

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life -- about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

- Parker J. Palmer

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

- Thomas Edison

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.

- Henry Ward Beecher

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

- Audre Lorde

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

- Rabbi Tarfon

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

- Marilyn Monroe

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

- Thomas Carlyle

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

- Alistair Cooke

Nothing will work unless you do.

- John Wooden

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished -- there will always be work you haven't done.

- Julia Child

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

- Benjamin Franklin

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

- Albert Camus

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

- Vincent van Gogh

In spite of oppressors, in spite of false leaders, in spite of labor's own lack of understanding of its needs, the cause of the worker continues onward. Slowly his hours are shortened, giving him leisure to read and to think. Slowly his standard of living rises to include some of the good and beautiful things of the world. Slowly the cause of his children becomes the cause of all. His boy is taken from the breaker, his girl from the mill. Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

- Mother Jones

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

- Susan Sontag

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

- George Washington Carver

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished -- there will always be work you haven't done.

- Julia Child

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

- George Washington Carver

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

- Booker T. Washington

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

- George Washington Carver

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

- Deborah Tannen

The most direct cause of women's misfortune is poverty; demanding their freedom means above all demanding reform in the economy of society which will eradicate poverty and give everyone an education, a minimum standard of living, and the right to work. [1838]

- Zoe Gatti de Gamond

What we do matters to us. Work may not be the most important thing in our lives or the only thing. We may work because we must, but we still want to love, to feel pride in, to respect ourselves for what we do and to make a difference.

- Sara Ann Friedman

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

- Judy Collins

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

- Matthew Fox

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

- Sam Donaldson

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

- Margaret Bourke-White

The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.

- Baruch Spinoza

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

- Parker J. Palmer

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.

- Christina Rossetti

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

- Orison Swett Marden

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

- Frederick Douglass

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

- Abraham Lincoln

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

- Matthew Fox