The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.