Work Quotes: Inspiring Sayings about Passion and Dedication

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"

"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary"

Harvey Specter, Actor

"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, Athlete

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness"

John Ruskin, Writer

"I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up"

Nancy Greene, Athlete

"Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"The end crowneth the work"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter"

George Will, Journalist

"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, Coach

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family"

Philip Green, Businessman

"I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work"

Philip Green, Businessman

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art"

Maria Callas, Musician

"The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next"

Christo, Artist

"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

"Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

"I think it's important to do great work"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"Our work is a scream of freedom"

Christo, Artist

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Telling lies does not work in advertising"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up"

Susan Sontag, Author

"No man will work for your interests unless they are his"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

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