The Simpsons

"You don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way."

- Homer Simpson, 'The Simpsons,' created by Matt Groening

Thomas Jefferson

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA

Maya Angelou

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as making a 'life.'"

- Maya Angelou, poet and author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, philosopher and intellectual

Albert Einstein

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

John Quincy Adams

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

- John Quincy Adams, former president of the USA

Theodore Roosevelt

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the USA

Lao-Tzu

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao-tzu, philosopher

Benjamin Franklin

"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished."

- Benjamin Franklin

John Wooden

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- John Wooden, basketball coach

Peter Drucker

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker, writer and management consultant

Jane Addams

"Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world."

- Jane Addams, activist

Thomas Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

- Thomas Edison, inventor