Colonel Sanders Quotes

There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

I don't have to work; I need to work.

I'm a single mother. It's silly to turn down work.

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old.

My father worked all the time.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

I don't know how anyone could stop working.

I didn't draw Angelina to be famous; I did it simply because I've always had to earn a living.

Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family.

I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'

You can have a passion for something, but you still have to pay the bills.

I have a job - it's a great job, and I love doing it - but I can't not work. That's not psychological; that's practical.

Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

I take commissions because I know I'll have to get up early in the morning and work.

I was brought up knowing that you have to make a living.

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

I hated being stuck at home doing the student thing. I always wanted to work. And there's nothing wrong with it. So you can take what you can get. And, you know, this, 'Well, that's beneath me. I have a degree.' Put it aside for a while because reality is what it is. There are a lot of people having to do a lot of things that they think are beneath them right now because McDonald's is not open to make sure you don't starve. That's your job. Your responsibility to make sure you don't starve and your kids don't starve and all the rest of it.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.