Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Work while others are wishing.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.