Audre Lorde Quotes

Do the day's work.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.

Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out.

If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.

I love being busy.