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Best Quotes About Work (Top 100)
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus -
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome -
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.
Maya Angelou -
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert -
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen -
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou -
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle -
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin -
If A is a 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 -
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde -
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish" You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
John Wesley -
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller -
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell -
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Julia Child -
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson -
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
William Arthur Ward -
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson -
Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
James Frey -
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell -
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh -
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell -
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee -
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates -
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford -
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Pablo Picasso -
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle -
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams -
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford -
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen -
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries -
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle -
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers -
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou -
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo da Vinci -
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James -
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
Marilyn Monroe -
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner -
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
Maya Angelou -
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi -
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford -
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco Chanel -
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt -
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver -
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa -
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh — anything but work.
Abraham Lincoln -
Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.
Joyce Meyer -
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
George Carlin -
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright -
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Henry Rollins -
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry -
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
Drew Carey -
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello -
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Henry Ford -
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Bronte -
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison -
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde -
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher -
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain -
If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
Johnny Depp -
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.
Marianne Williamson -
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost -
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King -
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell -
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.
Marie Curie -
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli -
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky -
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Peter Drucker -
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost -
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
Sheryl Sandberg -
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler -
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce -
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost -
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde -
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus -
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein -
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
Napoleon Hill -
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman -
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young -
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Jim Rohn -
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
George MacDonald -
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford -
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison -
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna -
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine -
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else
Sam Walton -
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George Carlin -
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
William Arthur Ward -
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey -
There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
Gary Snyder -
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx -
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
Even More Work Quotes
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
James A. Michener -
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates -
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
Erma Bombeck -
We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.
Coretta Scott King -
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.
Greg Mortenson -
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau -
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.
Ken Blanchard -
When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Helen Rowland -
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck -
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran -
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke -
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin -
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself â and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
Chief Joseph -
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank -
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Jim Rohn -
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
Alice Paul -
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Elizabeth Blackwell -
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
Jerry Garcia -
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold J. Toynbee -
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Antonin Artaud -
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi -
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova -
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi -
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin -
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Gordon B. Hinckley -
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus -
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke -
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
Dolores Huerta -
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben -
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne -
Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.
Dean Martin -
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr -
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
Garrison Keillor -
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel -
We're all working together; that's the secret.
Sam Walton -
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass -
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo -
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
Wayne Gretzky -
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard -
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott -
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis -
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi -
We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.
Dorothy Height -
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Johannes Brahms -
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Deborah Tannen -
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
John Carmack -
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton -
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs -
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.
W. Edwards Deming -
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Isak Dinesen -
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire -
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie -
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Linus Torvalds -
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles Handy -
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud -
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns -
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter -
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.
Igor Sikorsky -
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
William Hazlitt -
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust -
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi -
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Milton Friedman -
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Leonardo da Vinci -
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
Giorgio de Chirico -
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead -
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck -
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird -
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Galen -
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs -
Patience is also a form of action.
Auguste Rodin -
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Andrew Carnegie -
Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Frank Sinatra -
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips -
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock -
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash -
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Frank Wilczek -
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.
Amedeo Modigliani -
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
Joseph Conrad -
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin -
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen -
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
Mark Twain -
How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
Studs Terkel -
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
Christina Rossetti -
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass -
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
Chuck Close -
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
Bill Murray -
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
George Carlin -
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card -
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Bronte -
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock -
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini -
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer -
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford -
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers -
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie -
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Knute Rockne -
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca -
Among our people, theres not any question about women being strong — even stronger than men — they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you dont have these questions about yourself like middle — class women do.
Dolores Huerta -
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir one's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work; remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
Daniel Burnham -
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn -
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
Willie Mays -
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley -
Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
Dorothy L. Sayers -
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
Frederick Winslow Taylor -
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus -
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori -
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown -
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau -
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
Ginger Rogers -
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Abraham Lincoln -
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.
Marie Curie -
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Nadine Gordimer -
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!
Annie Dillard -
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
Maria Callas -
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke -
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell Baker -
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov -
My work is a game, a very serious game.
M. C. Escher -
It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
Mae West -
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland -
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
Cesar Chavez -
Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.
Erma Bombeck -
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham -
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Margot Fonteyn -
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi -
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Helen Keller -
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
Benjamin Jowett -
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
John Wayne -
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley -
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses -
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
Niklaus Wirth -
All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
Judith Anderson -
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman -
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Linus Torvalds -
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work
Peter F. Drucker -
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
John Dewey -
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
Thorstein Veblen -
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
Don Marquis -
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm -
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Gloria Vanderbilt -
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
Katharine Whitehorn -
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Charles Baudelaire -
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
Marian Wright Edelman -
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore -
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Anna Pavlova -
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi -
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius -
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
Jerry West -
Communication works for those who work at it.
John Powell -
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras -
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius -
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel -
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Catherine the Great -
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron -
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower -
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
Greer Garson -
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Alphonso Jackson -
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg -
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
Chaim Weizmann -
To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? (suicide note)
George Eastman -
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
Emil Nolde -
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
Josh Billings -
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt -
Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.
Antonio Porchia -
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley -
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Pierre Corneille -
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
Aaliyah -
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
George W. Bush -
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
William Morris -
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Carl Sandburg -
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola -
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau -
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne -
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
Alexander Hamilton -
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
Alan Sugar -
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein -
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
Ernest Newman -
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
Margaret Laurence -
I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
Manfred von Richthofen -
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Francis Picabia -
Change is such hard work.
Billy Crystal -
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya -
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Thomas Merton -
I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore — I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.
Joe Pesci -
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley -
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
Marc Anthony -
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.
John Ruskin -
I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.
John Denver -
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin -
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
George MacDonald -
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Julie Andrews -
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
Albert Einstein -
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Work is much more fun than fun.
Noel Coward -
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
Evan Esar -
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
David Lee Roth -
Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
Stephen Sondheim -
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer -
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Bliss Carman -
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
Bob Black -
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant -
There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus -
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
Bill Budge -
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
Charles Evans Hughes -
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder -
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow
Douglas Pagels -
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
Alan Rickman -
The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by former leaders of the party for the development of the country and its brighter future.
Sonia Gandhi -
Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.
Julia Morgan -
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
Alex Rodriguez -
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff -
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player -
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden -
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
Diane Arbus -
Communication is the real work of leadership.
Nitin Nohria -
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead -
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan Thomas -
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi -
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner -
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
Marilyn Horne -
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
Arthur Balfour -
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
James Weldon Johnson -
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn -
Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
Marian Wright Edelman -
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams -
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela -
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Satchel Paige -
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost -
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci -
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward Kennedy -
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Dorothea Lange -
Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
Thomas Hunt Morgan -
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
Dale Carnegie -
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
David Horowitz -
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
Eknath Easwaran -
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Lawrence Clark Powell -
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
Johann Sebastian Bach -
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader -
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Louisa May Alcott -
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews -
The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.
Gerard Way -
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun -
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
Lawrence Welk -
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben -
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi -
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield -
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin -
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Clara Barton -
I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
Andy Griffith -
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
Germaine Greer -
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
Shelby Steele -
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
Arundhati Roy -
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor -
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
Alexander Calder -
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell -
A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Robert Orben -
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Edgar Bergen -
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Alexander Alekhine -
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie -
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon -
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
Tom Lehrer -
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Mary Kay Ash -
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball -
Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.
Amitabh Bachchan -
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams -
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
Eileen Caddy -
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Sidney Lumet -
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
Thaddeus Golas -
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
Clement Greenberg -
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim -
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse -
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge -
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
Meryl Streep -
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Bruce Barton -
I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
Knute Rockne -
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Edward Weston -
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
Philip Guedalla -
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
Katherine Anne Porter -
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello -
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Althea Gibson -
You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
Gary Player -
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Anatole France -
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm S. Forbes -
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller -
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
John Owen -
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
Felix Frankfurter -
This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
George MacDonald -
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Brooks Atkinson -
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen -
Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.
Andrea Jung -
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
Ann Coulter -
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu -
When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.
Gary Sinise -
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis -
I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
Anita Roddick -
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer -
We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
Eugene Delacroix -
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
Samuel Johnson -
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Theodor Reik -
The happy people are those who are producing something...
William Ralph Inge -
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis -
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser -
Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Elliott Jaques -
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
James Goldsmith -
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome -
Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
Leo Szilard -
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
Leo Burnett -
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
Dan Castellaneta -
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott -
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
Alan Bullock -
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash -
To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun.
Katherine Graham -
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson -
Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.
Darrell Royal -
Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.
Sonia Gandhi -
I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.
Anne Grant -
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck -
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller -
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix -
To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.
Sophia Bush -
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers -
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo -
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis -
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm -
Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.
Denise Richards -
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
Joyce Chapman -
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.
Lucy Parsons -
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
Albert Einstein -
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Bertrand Russell -
Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
Phyllis Diller -
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work
Gertrude Stein -
Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
Charles Simeon -
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
James Cash Penney -
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.
Bruce Jenner -
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach -
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett -
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie -
Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
Hugh Walpole -
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers -
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Peter Marshall -
Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.
Ivana Trump -
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers -
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller -
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt -
Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
Jacqueline Bisset -
If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.
Celia Cruz -
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin -
All I was trying to do was get home from work.
Rosa Parks -
You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
Harry Browne -
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
David Livingstone -
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles -
As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
Sergey Brin -
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
Don Herold -
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
Harry Crews -
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pearl Bailey -
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington -
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.
Joe Orton -
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
Adam Michnik -
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint -
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Nadia Comaneci -
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Kenneth Tynan -
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
John James Audubon -
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
Clive Bell -
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
Edgar Lee Masters -
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.
William Cobbett -
I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.
Frankie Avalon -
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Cesar Chavez -
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Ann Oakley -
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts -
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
B. C. Forbes -
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
Boris Yeltsin -
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand -
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."
C. Northcote Parkinson -
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt -
If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.
Robert Townsend -
Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
Billie Holiday -
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney -
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope -
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery -
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi -
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine -
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden -
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
Kathe Kollwitz -
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
Earl Wilson -
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!
Robert Collier -
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
Rudyard Kipling -
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
Clive Bell -
The work will stand, no matter what.
Meryl Streep -
I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
Danny Kaye -
For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.
Charlotte Whitton -
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp -
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Andre Maurois -
Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
Richard Cecil -
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
George MacDonald -
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Louis L'Amour -
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
Mickey Rooney -
We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.
Brian Schweitzer -
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
Louise Bogan -
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker -
It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
Willie Stargell -
There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
Greg LeMond -
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Eileen Caddy -
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
Kin Hubbard -
Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.
Greg Norman -
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.
Robert E. Sherwood -
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
Patti Smith -
I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
Eva Longoria -
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers -
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
Samuel Smiles -
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Grandma Moses -
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky -
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde -
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
Thomas Arnold -
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan -
The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.
Dan Abrams -
There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.
Brandon Stanton -
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
Joyce Grenfell -
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse -
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Berthold Auerbach -
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Og Mandino -
Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.
Bill Dixon -
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler -
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Barbra Streisand -
Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.
Gracie Allen -
I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.
Dennis Quaid -
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.
Marie Curie -
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda -
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
Louis Untermeyer -
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
Mary McCarthy -
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.
Evan Esar -
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
William Albert Allard -
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
Barry Mann -
The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.
Ayumi Hamasaki -
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot -
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Louisa May Alcott -
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
Nelson Goodman -
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
Boris Vallejo -
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
David Bly -
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
Kim Cattrall -
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides -
Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
Red Adair -
I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis
Bill Rodgers -
I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
William Petersen -
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France -
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
Mary McCarthy -
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.
Jean Baudrillard -
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
Bart Starr -
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
Edward Young -
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
Rita Mae Brown -
Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis -
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
Lillie Langtry -
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde -
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
William Carlos Williams -
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half -
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
Andrew Wyeth -
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix -
So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!
Billy Sherwood -
There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done
Martti Ahtisaari -
Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.
Ricardo Semler -
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon -
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.
Richard Price -
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin -
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.
Angela Lansbury -
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Martin H. Fischer -
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree -
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
Eugenio Montale -
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
Julia Child -
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing
Abraham Maslow -
While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
Halle Berry -
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe -
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson -
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes -
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
Ted Turner -
We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.
John Thune -
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi -
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
Jef Raskin -
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown -
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
Louis E. Boone -
It's not the having, it's the getting.
Elizabeth Taylor -
If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul
Logan Pearsall Smith -
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori -
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Joshua Reynolds -
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
Kathleen Winsor -
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen C. Barrett -
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
James Freeman Clarke -
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Sherwood Anderson -
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln -
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler -
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee -
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.
Jon Stewart -
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr -
My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
Adam Baldwin -
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
Allen Boyd -
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Thomas Love Peacock -
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
Beatrice Wood -
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy -
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Northrop Frye -
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
Mary Stewart -
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle -
A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
Alan Jay Lerner -
I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I could have done more. I've paid the price in practice, but I know I get the most out of my ability.
Carl Yastrzemski -
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Christopher Dawson -
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser -
The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a regular print that you buy and ends up being a vertical and a horizontal placement. It works around the body.
John Galliano -
If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.
Montel Williams -
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
If it doesn't work, at least it will be an interesting train wreck.
Craig Ferguson -
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half -
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace -
Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
William Albert Allard -
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser -
If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
Arthur Bloch -
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer -
I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
William Petersen -
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them.
David Lloyd George -
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen -
I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.
Billy Sheehan -
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
Bob Richards -
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
Louis Nizer -
Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company.
Bob Parsons -
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
William Safire -
I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
Ava Gardner -
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing -
I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
Liz Carpenter -
The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.
Frank Murphy -
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
Alfred Kazin -
Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.
Garson Kanin -
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden -
The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.
Dennis Hopper -
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
Barbara Deming -
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks -
Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.
Joseph Badaracco -
In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.
Gordon Smith -
Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
Charles L. Allen -
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
Adam Ferguson -
Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.
Geraldo Rivera -
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
Barbara Walters -
You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.
Kylie Minogue -
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire -
Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
Anna Howard Shaw -
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Brooks Atkinson -
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
Ezra Pound -
I have done all the work I usually do and a little bit more, so hopefully that will produce results in at least one of the last two Tests.
Adam Gilchrist -
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
Elizabeth Arden -
Many hands make light work.
John Heywood -
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre -
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half -
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Charles Kingsley -
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
Don DeLillo -
There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
Debbie Allen -
If I don't need the money, I don't work.
James Spader -
Give me love and work - these two only.
William Morris -
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
Antonin Artaud -
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
John J. Sweeney -
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
Stanley Fish -
Handle your tools without mittens.
Benjamin Franklin -
We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
Ivy Baker Priest -
The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
William Friedkin -
When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.
Paulina Porizkova -
Chance favors only those who court her.
Charles Nicolle -
Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.
Ellen Gilchrist -
I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.
Enya -
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Norman Vincent Peale -
I believe that good things come to those who work.
Wilt Chamberlain -
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein -
The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.
M. Russell Ballard -
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas -
The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
Charles Barkley -
Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
Jeannette Rankin -
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel -
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Groucho Marx -
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Benjamin Franklin -
We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country.
Brian Schweitzer -
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
Paul Klee -
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Doug Larson -
Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
Mary Daly -
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
Anne Tyler -
The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
Buck Owens -
My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.
John Scott -
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Ben Hecht -
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
Don Shula -
To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more
Rafael Benitez -
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
R. H. Tawney -
I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally
Peter DeFazio -
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.
Andy Garcia -
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Oscar Wilde -
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong -
There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.
Arthur Symons -
I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.
Angela Bassett -
Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.
Bernice Johnson Reagon -
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
Robert De Niro -
Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
Frank Dane -
You shouldn't have to justify your work.
Judy Chicago -
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Benjamin Franklin -
He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
Ed Wood -
If you want peace, work for justice.
Henry Louis Mencken -
You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.
Ben Gazzara -
Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.
Amy Irving -
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers -
It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
John Wanamaker -
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.
Judith Martin -
In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
Steve Carell -
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
Rosa Parks -
The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.
Liz Smith -
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
Dave Barry -
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
Madeleine Albright -
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?
Hollis Stacy -
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Franklin P. Jones -
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
Ivo Andric -
In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.
Bill Anderson -
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Benjamin Franklin -
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
Colin Baker -
Exchange is creation.
Muriel Rukeyser -
Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit.
Muriel Fox -
I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.
Cary Elwes -
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
David Niven -
Annika has the type of game I want to work on. She's just so consistent. Hopefully I'll be like that one day.
Michelle Wie -
We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help.
Marc Morial -
The work is the most important thing.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau -
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
Bill Wyman -
A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.
Albert Einstein -
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
Avery Brundage -
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas William Jerrold -
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
Rosa Parks -
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West -
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.
Hank Stram -
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg -
The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
Eileen Caddy -
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith -
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Ellen Sturgis Hooper -
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
Joseph Jacobs -
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Kahlil Gibran -
To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.
Andrew Wyeth -
The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
Bonnie Blair -
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod -
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing -
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
William Murray -
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw -
Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.
Richard Carlson -
Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world...
Chuck Palahniuk -
Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.
Sarah Knowles Bolton -
The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
Lajos Kassak -
For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.
Desiderius Erasmus -
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova -
Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
Jack Nichols -
This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.
Clive Davis -
I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.
Maya Angelou -
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
R. C. Sherriff -
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Lewis Thomas -
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Harold Wilson -
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb -
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
Josh Billings -
If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Robert Herrick -
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.".
Jim Fox -
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
John Lennon -
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen -
Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
Elspeth Huxley -
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Thomas Carlyle -
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
Robert Orben -
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
Charles Wesley -
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
Katharine Hepburn -
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard -
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridge -
To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.
Mark Sullivan -
It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.
Keith Bellows -
I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.
Tracy Caulkins -
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil -
Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go
Walt Disney -
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha -
Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
Karen Horney -
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau -
When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?
John Ball -
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
Joseph Weizenbaum -
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
Vanna Bonta -
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
Hubert H. Humphrey -
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Stendhal -
Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets
Bruce Springsteen -
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington -
Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
E. Merrill Root -
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley -
God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath Tagore -
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Golda Meir -
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
Will Rogers -
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
George Whitefield -
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell -
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
Walt Disney -
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt Disney -
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....
Max Beerbohm -
The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
Earl Wilson -
With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.
Christian Lacroix -
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis -
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Thomas Fuller -
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin -
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha -
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
Bob Black -
We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.
Peace Pilgrim -
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
Albert Einstein -
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper -
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.
Norman Vincent Peale -
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman -
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver -
When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.
Coco Chanel -
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs -
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley -
God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
Helen Keller -
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller -
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
Tennessee Williams -
Life is about trying things to see if they work.
Ray Bradbury -
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
Germaine Greer -
Who longest wait of all surely wins.
Helen Hunt Jackson -
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Jerome K. Jerome -
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin -
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
James Russell Lowell -
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
Doris Lessing -
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare -
Work is the province of cattle.
Dorothy Parker -
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden -
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.
Jacob Bronowski -
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
William Feather -
I see what keeps people young: work!
Ted Turner -
That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.
Oprah Winfrey -
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards -
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge -
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Mary Kay Ash -
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau -
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Plutarch -
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.
Benjamin Bratt -
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life
Harvey Mackay -
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
Albert Einstein -
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein -
John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
Barack Obama -
I work on my voice through what I have to sing.
Bryn Terfel -
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz -
I try to work with God as a partner.
Gary Player -
The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.
Adam Carolla -
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
Scott Adams -
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.
Wayne Dyer -
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Charles de Gaulle -
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Baltasar Gracian -
The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.
Sarah Knowles Bolton -
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
Beverly Cleary -
I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.
Bobby Flay -
I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.
Bill Gates -
No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
David Seabury -
You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.
William Albert Allard -
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
Clive Barker -
For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not.
Coventry Patmore -
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson -
I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to my father . . . So just basically following that and following my heart.
Paris Hilton -
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Charles Baudelaire -
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
Charles Baudelaire -
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire -
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire -
'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
Ezra Pound -
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan -
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill -
You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals -
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
Camille Paglia -
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
Nikita Khrushchev -
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw -
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw -
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp -
The German passion for bureaucracy — for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist — is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .
Janet Flanner -
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
Abraham Maslow -
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honore de Balzac -
Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.
William Blake -
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand -
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
Cato the Elder -
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.
John Gotti -
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso -
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm
Swedish Proverb -
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Herman Melville -
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin -
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
Mark Twain -
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain -
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain -
Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.
David Sarnoff -
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn -
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Harry S. Truman -
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis -
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
Oswald Chambers -
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
Katherine Mansfield -
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee -
All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
Vince Lombardi -
Play needs direction as well as work.
Elbert Hubbard -
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
Elbert Hubbard -
We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard -
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard -
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard -
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard -
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Ernest Hemingway -
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Groucho Marx -
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
Henry Ford -
…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called âcritical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term âphilosopher’.
Alfred Korzybski -
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
Barbra Streisand -
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
Thomas Carlyle -
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome