90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
- Colin Powell


A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
- Colin Powell


All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle


Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius


Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
- Henry Ford


I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson


I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.
- Tom Cruise


I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
- Walt Disney


I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell


I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
- Michael Jordan


If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
- Ben Franklin


It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
- Ben Franklin


It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
- Ronald Reagan


John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
- Barack Obama
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln


Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle


Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
- Mahatma Gandhi


The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
- Wayne Gretzky


There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford


There is still a lot of hard work that we as a country need to do. They can't look to any one individual, whether it's Barack or it's the next new hope that's going to appear to be that savior.
- Michelle Obama


Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
- Mark Twain


We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
- Barack Obama
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When we consider a project, we really study it--not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.
- Walt Disney


When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
- Confucius


Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
- Ben Franklin


Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain


Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
- Mark Twain