Work Quotes

"While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work"

Michael Caine, Actor

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"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, Novelist

"My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived"

Steven Adler, Musician

"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination"

Robert South, Clergyman

"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way"

John Zorn, Composer

"I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work"

John Zorn, Composer

"It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command"

George Crook, Soldier

"Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

"Work is the price which is paid for reputation"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Writing is hard work and bad for the health"

E. B. White, Writer

"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"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, Scientist

"Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"Half a doctor's work is done if he is called 'Doctor.'"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Hard work always pays off"

Ben Smith, Athlete

"Success is built on consistency. It's not about the highs and lows; it's about putting in the work day in and day out"

Ben Smith, Athlete

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