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I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

– Ronald Reagan

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

– Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

– Lucille Ball

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

– Joseph Conrad

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

– Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

– Woody Allen

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)

– Albert Einstein

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

– William Ernest Hocking

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

– Thomas Jefferson

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

– Sybil Marshall

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

– Carol Burnett

I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

– John 174 Bible

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

– Bruce Grocott

I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

– Robert Fulford

I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson.

– George Washington Carver

I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.

– Robert Louis Stephenson

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't.

– Bruce Jenner

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

– Jerome K. Jerome

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

– Jerome K. Jerome

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

– Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat", 1889

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

– Louise Nevelson

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

– John Waters

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'

– Igor Stravinsky

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

– George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N.Y.

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