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- Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
- Peter Marshall
- Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Method of Nature (1841)
- You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
- If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
- Srully Blotnick
- Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
- George Sand (1804 - 1876)
- The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
- Charles Schwab
- Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
- Napoleon Hill
- All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
- Thomas J. Watson
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