If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. Paulo Coelho
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Voltaire
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day. Barack Obama
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work. Thomas A. Edison
If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work. Mitch Hedberg
If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it. Mitt Romney
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. Ann Rule
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it. Barack Obama
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so. Bertrand Russell
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. Napoleon Hill
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. Gail Devers
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. Doug Larson
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. Arthur Conan Doyle
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad. Fyodor Dostoevsky
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. Thomas J. Watson
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. Voltaire
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. Marianne Williamson