Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
I've succeeded at something that at times I've hated, and that's relevant to the person who goes down to the auto repair shop and puts in his time. We all have to do things we don't like.
Seekers who have paid the price in perspiration have been magnified by inspiration.
Children must be taught to work at home. They should learn there that honest labor develops dignity and self-respect. They should learn the pleasure of work, of doing a job well.
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.
If a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working
There is no way to success in our art, but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
One must know how to work hard for a long time, but in such a manner that nobody would notice the amount of labor and sweat on that painting.