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"The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine." »Nikola Tesla
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"I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." »Groucho Marx
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"The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked." »Robert Hutchins
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"Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure." »Seneca
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"He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much." »Elbert Hubbard
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"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men." »Clare Booth Luce
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"What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you." »Nora Ephron
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"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked." »George Gilder
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"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught." »H.L. Mencken
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"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." »Jefferson Davis
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"Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for." »Thomas Arnold
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"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit." »M Scott Peck
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"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." »Thomas Sowell
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"There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves." »Søren Kierkegaard
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"I was working in a parking lot, which is a great place to learn the guitar. I sat in the booth and practiced all day long. And only two cars were stolen while I worked there." »John Flansburgh
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"Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind." »Julius Rosenwald
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"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." »Vince Lombardi
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"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall
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"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner." »Aldous Huxley
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"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance." »Orville Wright
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"Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed." »Lowell Duckett
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"The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes." »Tod Johnson
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." »Helen Hayes
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'" »Helen Hayes
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"Ricky Here's what I'm gonna ask of you... We're going to be spending the night in New York, so it worked out well for all of us. I want you to take it back to the business class, I want you to round up a couple of honeys... At our hotel room we're gonna have kind of a pool party. California gangster-style, you know what I mean Kick ass pool party thing." »Made
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"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell
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"Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it." »Josiah Gilbert Holland
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