Quotes by American Authors - Page 27

Ideally couples need three lives one for him one for her and one for them together.
Jacqueline Bisset
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
Meridel Le Sueur
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
Kathleen Winsor
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
Barbara Walters
Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
Anna Howard Shaw
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy
As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn
It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work
Edith Hamilton
Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.
Ellen Gilchrist
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time the distinction between work and play dissolves.
Shakti Gawain
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain
Rita Mae Brown
With the power of conviction there is no sacrifice.
Pat Benatar
If you want something done ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do the more you can do.
Lucille Ball
There are two kinds of talents man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while.
Pearl Bailey
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Walter Lippman
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
William Feather
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.
Louis L'Amour
Be strong! We are not here to play to dream to drift We have hard work to do and loads to lift Shun not the struggle-face it 'tis God's gift.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Passion is never enough neither is skill.
Toni Morrison
I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.
Ellen Sturgis Hooper
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
Katharine Hepburn
Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.
Lillian Carter
People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.
Lauren Bacall
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
Madeleine Albright
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Harry S. Truman
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly quietly without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath you would stop and take a breath you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
Elizabeth Prentiss
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers
Whether we call it a job or a career work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.
Anita Hill
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life and also a personal life complete with noncompetitive leisure has never really taken hold.
Judith Martin
I have worked all my life wanted to work all my life needed to work all my life.
Liz Carpenter
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
Ginger Rogers
What a man sows that shall he and his relations reap.
Clarissa Graves
Busy people are never busybodies.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.
Mary Ellen Chase
I realized that with hard work the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age.
Chris Evert
The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
Bonnie Blair
I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Helena Rubinstein
Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.
Benjamin Franklin
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.
Laura Towne
Work is the province of cattle.
Dorothy Parker
For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.
Kathy Ireland
Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
Betty Friedan
Work alternated with needful rest is the salvation of man or woman.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
In all human affairs there are efforts there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Lane Allen
You can have unbelievable intelligence you can have connections you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end hard work is the true enduring characteristic of successful people.
Marsha Evans
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Nadia Comaneci
If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.
Wes Izzard
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results it produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charles O. Finley
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.
Marilyn Machlowitz
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain
Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
Maria Goeppert Mayer