Work Quotes

"You have to be willing to put in the hard work and make sacrifices to achieve your goals"

"All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"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, Coach

"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, Coach

"People who work sitting down make money more than individuals who work standing up"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"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, Businesswoman

"Give yourself something to work toward - constantly"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious"

Helen Keller, Author

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"The greatest weariness comes from work not done"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"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, Artist

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Work cures everything"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"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, Poet

"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place"

Steven Wright, Comedian

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