Work Quotes

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work"

"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

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

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"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, Designer

"Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"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, Businessman

"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"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, President

"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed"

St. Jerome, Saint

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work"

John Lubbock, Statesman

"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

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