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The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.
Sep 10, 2025
It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way I am achieving my dreams.
If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.
Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.
I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.
There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.
Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women’s movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.
Just because the road ahead is long, is no reason to slow down. Just because there is much work to be done, is no reason to get discouraged. It is a reason to get started, to grow, to find new ways, to reach within yourself and discover strength, commitment, and determination. The road ahead is long and difficult, but it’s filled with opportunity. Start what needs starting. Finish what needs finishing. Get on the road. Stay on the road. Don’t give up.
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.
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.
In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.
Work hard at work worth doing.
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
You walk into Air Force One. It's like a surreal experience, in a certain way, but you have to get over it, because there's so much work to be done, whether it's jobs or other nations that truly hate us. You have to get over it.
On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.
There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.