Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

work

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. 27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. 21 wisdom & wit from Bette Davis

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. 38 other quotes from William Hazlitt

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. 9 thoughts from Ludwig Wittgenstein

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. 9 other views from Vladimir Nabokov

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. 21 more quotes from Bette Davis

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. 41 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. 25 more quotes from Charles Baudelaire

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. 27 thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries. 21 wisdom & wit from Bette Davis

I work to stay alive. 21 thoughts from Bette Davis

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. 27 more quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. 10 other thoughts from Booker T. Washington

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. 14 more quotes from Edward Gibbon

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. 38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. 12 other quotes from Thornton Wilder

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. 6 quotes from Emile Zola

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. 27 thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies. 21 other quotes from Bette Davis

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. 7 wisdom & wit from Arnold J. Toynbee

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. 45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. 43 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. 8 thoughts from Joseph Brodsky

An honest man's the noblest work of God. 43 other quotes from Alexander Pope

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change yourself and your work will seem different. 11 thoughts from Norman Vincent Peale

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. 11 wisdom & wit from Norman Vincent Peale

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. 7 more quotes from Jerome K. Jerome

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. 46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. 33 more thoughts from Thomas Huxley

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. 13 views from James M. Barrie

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. 26 other quotes from Harry S. Truman

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. 26 quotes from Sigmund Freud

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. 26 thoughts from Sigmund Freud

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. 9 sayings from Margaret Fuller

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. 13 other sayings from James M. Barrie

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. 45 other quotes from Bertrand Russell

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. 3 wisdom & wit from William Moulton Marston

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. 10 quotes from Novalis

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. 23 quotes from E. W. Howe

The pay is good and I can walk to work. 46 sayings from John F. Kennedy

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. 3 sayings from Henry J. Kaiser

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. 46 thoughts from John F. Kennedy

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. 4 sayings from Mary McCarthy

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. 18 other thoughts from Pearl S. Buck

We work to become, not to acquire. 59 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. 18 views from Pearl S. Buck

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. 3 quotes from Irvin S. Cobb

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. 5 more quotes from Brigham Young

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. 16 quotes from Vince Lombardi

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. 12 views from Marquis de Sade

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. 6 other wisdom & wit from Charles Kingsley

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. 18 more sayings from Pearl S. Buck

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work. 53 other quotes from Marilyn Monroe

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. 16 other quotes from Vince Lombardi

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. 31 thoughts from Helen Keller

My work is a game, a very serious game. 2 other quotes from M. C. Escher

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. 16 more wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. 26 sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. 59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. 16 views from Vince Lombardi

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. 16 sayings from Vince Lombardi

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. 17 wisdom & wit from Calvin Coolidge

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. 117 other thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

By the work one knows the workman. 15 views from Jean de La Fontaine

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. 24 other sayings from Jean Cocteau

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. 10 more sayings from John D. Rockefeller

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. 10 wisdom & wit from John D. Rockefeller

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. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. 35 other thoughts from Ernest Hemingway

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. 45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. 117 views from Henry David Thoreau

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. 45 other sayings from Aldous Huxley

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. 14 more quotes from Andre Maurois

The greatest weariness comes from work not done. 31 more views from Eric Hoffer

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 32 wisdom & wit from Henry Ford

Work isn't to make money you work to justify life. 5 other quotes from Marc Chagall

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. 4 quotes from C. Northcote Parkinson

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. 17 other thoughts from Calvin Coolidge

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' 18 sayings from Don Marquis

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. 9 other thoughts from George Sand

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. 115 more sayings from George Bernard Shaw

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. 17 more views from Calvin Coolidge

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. 9 more views from Satchel Paige

Writing is hard work and bad for the health. 19 views from E. B. White

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. 32 quotes from Henry Ford

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. 17 more wisdom & wit from Calvin Coolidge

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! 16 wisdom & wit from Coco Chanel

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. 13 quotes from Herman Melville

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work. 22 views from William Feather

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. 22 sayings from William Feather

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. 5 quotes from Maria Montessori

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. 16 thoughts from Coco Chanel

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. 11 more quotes from Lucille Ball

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. 6 quotes from H. P. Lovecraft

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. 14 wisdom & wit from Ogden Nash

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. 18 more wisdom & wit from Mother Teresa

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it. 31 thoughts from Mae West

The harder I work, the luckier I get. 16 sayings from Samuel Goldwyn

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. 18 quotes from Mother Teresa

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. 4 other quotes from Al Capp

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. 21 quotes from Laurence J. Peter

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. 26 quotes from Theodor Adorno

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. 2 more thoughts from Grandma Moses

I'm working myself to death. 4 other wisdom & wit from Alan Ladd

If you want peace work for justice. 7 more thoughts from Pope Paul VI

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. 21 other thoughts from Leo Tolstoy

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! 3 sayings from David O. McKay

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. 60 views from H. L. Mencken

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. 23 other sayings from T. S. Eliot

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. 21 more sayings from Laurence J. Peter

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. 26 wisdom & wit from Theodor Adorno

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

You're blessed if you have the strength to work. 13 views from Mahalia Jackson

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. 9 thoughts from John Dewey

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. 100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. 100 views from Oscar Wilde

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. 8 sayings from Helen Hayes

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride. 8 sayings from W. Edwards Deming

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. 16 other sayings from Paul Valery

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. 6 quotes from Lillie Langtry

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. 28 other sayings from Napoleon Hill

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. 36 more sayings from Theodore Roosevelt

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. 30 more quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. 3 more thoughts from Dylan Thomas

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. 36 more sayings from Theodore Roosevelt

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. 29 sayings from Pablo Picasso

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. 30 other quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. 36 sayings from Theodore Roosevelt

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. 30 thoughts from Eleanor Roosevelt

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. 100 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. 4 more quotes from Jonas Salk

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. 52 other quotes from Albert Camus

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. 2 other sayings from Eugene Ionesco

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. 19 other wisdom & wit from Charles de Gaulle

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. 11 sayings from Henry Van Dyke

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad. 10 quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. 78 thoughts from Voltaire

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. 78 quotes from Voltaire

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. 57 other views from Will Rogers

Life is too short to work so hard. 5 thoughts from Vivien Leigh

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. 98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

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. 22 quotes from Andre Gide

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. 21 quotes from Dale Carnegie

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. 2 views from Soichiro Honda

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. 52 quotes from George Eliot

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. 22 quotes from Andre Gide

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. 12 thoughts from James Allen

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. 98 thoughts from Mark Twain

Will it, and set to work briskly. 29 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Schiller

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work. 98 other sayings from Mark Twain

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. 52 other quotes from Albert Camus

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. 98 more quotes from Mark Twain

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. 22 thoughts from Andre Gide

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! 10 quotes from Og Mandino

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. 68 other quotes from Samuel Butler

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. 2 quotes from Carlos Castenada

Work alone is noble. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. 68 thoughts from Samuel Butler

You reach a point where you don't work for money. 23 quotes from Walt Disney

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. 6 wisdom & wit from Norman Douglas

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. 58 views from Thomas Carlyle

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. 58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. 12 quotes from Frank Zappa

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. 23 views from Walt Disney

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

Every noble work is at first impossible. 58 other sayings from Thomas Carlyle

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. 12 wisdom & wit from J. Paul Getty

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. 8 quotes from Stephen Leacock

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough. 2 quotes from Alfred Eisenstaedt

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. 3 quotes from Maria Callas

I learned the value of hard work by working hard. 18 more quotes from Margaret Mead

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. 30 views from Gustave Flaubert

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. 23 other wisdom & wit from Walt Disney

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' 23 other sayings from Henry Miller

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. 12 quotes from George MacDonald

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. 23 quotes from Walt Disney

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. 58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. 58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. 58 views from Thomas Carlyle

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. 2 sayings from Carlos Castaneda

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. 58 views from Thomas Carlyle

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. 23 more sayings from Henry Miller

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. 12 thoughts from J. Paul Getty

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. 19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. 3 quotes from Steve Prefontaine

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. 23 other wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. 41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.

All things are difficult before they are easy. 45 sayings from Thomas Fuller

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. 96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. 6 sayings from Evan Esar

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. 25 other wisdom & wit from Orison Swett Marden

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you. 3 quotes from Constantin Stanislavski

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. 3 other views from Alvin Ailey

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. 13 views from Alexander Hamilton

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. 15 more sayings from Albert Schweitzer

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way. 3 views from Danny Kaye

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it. 3 more sayings from Steve Prefontaine

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. 24 more quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. 56 views from Khalil Gibran

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. 29 other quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. 20 more quotes from Thomas Aquinas

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. 30 quotes from Virginia Woolf

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. 23 more sayings from Paul Cezanne

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. 21 thoughts from Abu Bakr

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. 13 quotes from Chanakya

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. 75 thoughts from Aristotle

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. 3 more wisdom & wit from Lascelles Abercrombie

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work. 20 more views from Thomas Aquinas

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. 24 wisdom & wit from Carl Sandburg

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. 96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. 12 thoughts from Thomas Merton

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. 14 more views from Stendhal

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. 11 more views from Meister Eckhart

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. 25 thoughts from Orison Swett Marden

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. 20 wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. 3 sayings from Edward Kennedy

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. 26 more sayings from E. M. Forster

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. 25 more views from Orison Swett Marden

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. 75 thoughts from Aristotle

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. 5 views from Joe E. Lewis

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. 96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. 24 quotes from Carl Sandburg

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. 20 wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. 41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no substitute for hard work. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. 45 views from John Ruskin

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. 29 other quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

Whether for life or death, do your own work well. 45 other quotes from John Ruskin

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! 8 sayings from Charles Darwin

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. 45 more wisdom & wit from John Ruskin

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. 31 thoughts from Gertrude Stein

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. 2 wisdom & wit from Constantin Brancusi

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. 2 other thoughts from Laura Ingalls Wilder

Every person born into this world their work is born with them. 24 quotes from James Russell Lowell

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work. 14 wisdom & wit from Jessica Savitch

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. 26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. 5 views from Anna Pavlova

I don't want to die as long as I can work the minute I can not, I want to go. 14 quotes from Susan B. Anthony

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. 23 views from Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work. 23 more thoughts from Thomas A. Edison

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. 32 more wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. 29 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. 23 thoughts from Thomas A. Edison

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. 6 other views from Lana Turner

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. 14 sayings from Susan B. Anthony

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. 45 more quotes from John Ruskin

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. 45 other sayings from John Ruskin

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. 5 quotes from Anna Pavlova

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. 2 thoughts from George Halas

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done. 14 quotes from Susan B. Anthony

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. 23 more quotes from Thomas A. Edison

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. 23 more sayings from Thomas A. Edison

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. 45 sayings from John Ruskin

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. 25 wisdom & wit from Simone Weil

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. 45 other wisdom & wit from John Ruskin

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. 23 more wisdom & wit from Thomas A. Edison

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. 45 quotes from John Ruskin

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. 3 wisdom & wit from Sholom Aleichem

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. 17 views from Tennessee Williams

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. 50 views from Robert Frost

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. 3 quotes from Alexander Graham Bell

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. 6 other thoughts from Earl Nightingale

Fear God and work hard. 3 more quotes from David Livingstone

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. 23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

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. 18 other quotes from Joseph Campbell

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. 9 quotes from Lawrence Welk

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work. 17 other quotes from Chief Joseph

One must work and dare if one really wants to live. 23 wisdom & wit from Vincent Van Gogh

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. 6 other quotes from Earl Nightingale

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. 50 more sayings from Robert Frost

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. 50 other sayings from Robert Frost

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. 16 views from Michelangelo

The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day. 4 sayings from George Allen, Sr.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. 17 thoughts from Tennessee Williams

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. 7 more quotes from Pearl Bailey

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. 4 more wisdom & wit from Maxim Gorky