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There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

There’s more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.

There's not a single job in this town. There's nothin', nada, zip. Unless you wanna workforty hours a week.

There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

The right man can make a good job out of any job.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when Iam sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The world belongs to the energetic.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

The workman still is greater than his work.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.