“ Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. ”

“ Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs ”

“ If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. ”

“ Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ”

“ No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. ”

“ Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life. ”

“ I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. ”

“ If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life. ”

“ Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. ”

“ I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ”

“ A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. ”

“ Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. ”