Famous Work Quotes

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Every spoken word arouses our self-will"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"All things are difficult before they are easy"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day"

Robert Frost, Poet

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Every noble work is at first impossible"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Work alone is noble"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all"

Sam Ewing, Athlete

"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

"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt"

Henry J. Kaiser, Businessman

"I'm working myself to death"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it"

Edgar Winter, Musician

"Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week"

Evan Esar, Writer

"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid"

Irvin S. Cobb, Journalist

"It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs"

Ron Livingston, Actor

"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job"

Walter Wager, Novelist

"The harder I work, the luckier I get"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort"

William Gibson, Writer

"After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not"

Bill Budge, Businessman

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"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 Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided"

Mark Twain, Author

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work"

Ogden Nash, Poet

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work"

William Faulkner, Novelist

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