Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Amos Lee

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

Anna Howard Shaw

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

Cullen Hightower

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

Conrad Hilton

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

Conrad Aiken

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

Corita Kent

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

Daniel Yankelovich

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Andre Maurois

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Rick Carlisle

There's a feeling that our players are misinterpreted and a little misunderstood because of various factors. Dress would be one of them. As a league, we know we have good people. We have great guys on our team. . . . I feel like what our team did last year (after the brawl) is a much better indicator of the character and quality of people in our league than anything else people might want to surmise in terms of perception.

Pete Carroll

There's no question he stepped out of character so we have to help him. We went through it the way that we do it. We considered all the circumstances and how remorseful the guy was.

G. H. Hardy

We teach our guys it's all about character and class and we showed a lot of both.

Tom Powers

We just put on an unbelievable four minutes of defensive pressure. It just showed such tremendous character and heart.

Craig Brehon

We showed so much character this tournament, and it'll help even more later in the season. Rallying back Friday night (for a 49-48 victory over Booker T. Washington) and then coming back like this tonight will help us in the district.

Earl Calloway

We showed character and we showed fight. We got down, and we still continued to fight and lost by eight.

Donna Mills

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Hugo Chavez

South America has changed. A worker is president of Brazil - there comes Lula; an Indian is president of Bolivia; a woman is president of Chile, and in Venezuela, a revolutionary soldier, which is what I am.

Jose Andres Puerta

One day, we'll have 10, 20 or 50 Jaleos around America or around the world.

Brandon Gray

One could take these movies and learn a lot about Hollywood, but you wouldn't learn much about America. Because they are not popular.

Nebojsa Pavkovic

Now is the time to guard and defend Serbia and Yugoslavia, ... America and NATO want us to hand over (a piece) of our state so that they can do as they please.

Paul Blank

Now is the time for Wal-Mart to seize the moment and become a better company. No hardworking American should ever have to live without health care or struggle to survive on poverty-level wages while corporate America makes obscene profits.

Mike Ross

Now is not the time to play politics, ... Now is the time to do what's right by the American people by developing a budget that puts working families first and that truly allows us to rebuild our economy and make America safe once again.