I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
Bette Davis

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette Davis

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
William Glasser

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
William Glasser

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
Albert Ellis

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
Albert Ellis

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
James A. Baldwin

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van Gogh

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre