In life, you always have to keep fighting. It’s not easy.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Lawyers are the new three-button, white-collar, cuff-shooting cowboys. They fulfill all the cowboy criteria. Workingmen with arcane skills. They can be both good and bad, sheriffs and gunslingers

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good”.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The wealth of a country is its working people.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that’s all anybody wants to know. I’d say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it’s there

If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I’d do is join a union

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn’t just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

There’s no substitute for hard work and getting out there and busting your butt at whatever it is. Nothing comes easy. You can overcome so much just through hard, focused work.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.

My work was practice, practice, practice.

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God’s Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

If a Man Does His Best, What Else Is There?

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today

I have no idols. I respect hard work, dedication and competence”

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

Your life’s work is to find your life’s work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it.

Dream big – dream very big. Work hard – work very hard. And after you’ve done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.