Work Quotes

Small: I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but
"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work"
Vivienne Westwood, Designer
Small: I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred pe
Greg Akcelrod
"I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success"
Greg Akcelrod, Athlete
Small: Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I dont feel I am watching myself, but wat
"Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character"
Jacqueline Bisset, Actress
Small: Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. Ive always called myself an illustrator. Im not su
"Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life"
Norman Rockwell, Artist
Small: Evil gains work their punishment
Sophocles
"Evil gains work their punishment"
Sophocles, Author
Small: When the best leaders work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
"When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves.""
Lao Tzu, Author
Small: In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In
Lao Tzu
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present"
Lao Tzu, Author
Small: Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body
H. L. Mencken
"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
Small: When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Small: A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or do
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
Small: Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
Small: The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment.
Voltaire
"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work"
Voltaire, Writer
Small: It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it
Voltaire
"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it"
Voltaire, Writer
Small: We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should wo
Voltaire
"We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest"
Voltaire, Writer
Small: Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable
Voltaire
"Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable"
Voltaire, Writer
Small: Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do
Mark Twain
"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do"
Mark Twain, Author
Small: Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow
Benjamin Franklin
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
Small: We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
Benjamin Franklin
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
Small: The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands
Benjamin Franklin
"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
Small: All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the se
Benjamin Franklin
"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
Small: I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its o
George Bernard Shaw
"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
Small: When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work
George Bernard Shaw
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
Small: Tarantino is the coolest damn guy hes just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director Ive ever wo
"Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it"
David Carradine, Actor
Small: People intoxicate themselves with work so they wont see how they really are
Aldous Huxley
"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
Small: Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work
Aldous Huxley
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
Small: The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work
Elbert Hubbard
"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
Small: It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve ones dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, f
W. Somerset Maugham
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
Small: Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - theres so little competition
Elbert Hubbard
"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
Small: The beginning is the most important part of the work
Plato
"The beginning is the most important part of the work"
Plato, Philosopher
Small: I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work
Plato
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work"
Plato, Philosopher
Small: Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the days work. I follow in buil
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, l
Abraham Lincoln
"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds"
Abraham Lincoln, President
Small: Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for him
Abraham Lincoln
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built"
Abraham Lincoln, President
Small: Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit
Aristotle
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Small: I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been givin
Albert Schweitzer
"I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
Small: A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession
Albert Camus
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Small: Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies
Albert Camus
"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
Small: Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
Small: The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism its ego
Robert Frost
"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism"
Robert Frost, Poet
Small: The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them
Robert Frost
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them"
Robert Frost, Poet
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