Work Quotes

"I think about my work every minute of the day"

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

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"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

"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, Dancer

"Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband"

Anna Faris, Actress

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

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

Robert Frost, Poet

"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

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

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"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

"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay"

Steve Jobs, 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

"Nothing will work unless you do"

Maya Angelou, 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

"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others"

Buddha, Leader

"It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them"

Sting, Musician

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"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, Author

"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week"

Chaim Potok, Author

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