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“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.”
— Magic Johnson
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“I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.”
— Jack White
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“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.”
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.”
— Oliver Stone
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“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.”
— Earl Nightingale
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“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
— Vince Lombardi
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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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“I think the best place to work in football is England.”
— Jose Mourinho
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“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”
— Charles Kingsley
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“The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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“I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.”
— Marlee Matlin
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“I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.”
— Harry Connick, Jr.
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“The days you work are the best days.”
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.”
— George MacDonald
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“I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.”
— Kim Kardashian
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“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”
— Simone Weil
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“You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!”
— Marie Corelli
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“I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.”
— Dick Wolf
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“Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.”
— Donna Leon
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“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
— Colin Powell
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“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
— Coco Chanel
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“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”
— Robert Orben
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“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.”
— Edward Gibbon
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“The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.”
— Blaine Lee
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