Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

work

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

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

Will it, and set to work briskly. 29 thoughts from Friedrich Schiller

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. 98 wisdom & wit 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 and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. 22 other thoughts from Andre Gide

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

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

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. 19 views 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 quotes 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 sayings from Voltaire

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

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

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

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

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. 98 more 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 more views from Soichiro Honda

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. 22 other wisdom & wit from Andre Gide

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. 6 views 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 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. 23 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

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

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. 12 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Gustave Flaubert

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. 23 sayings 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 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 other 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 more views 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 quotes 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 more sayings 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 other 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 wisdom & wit from Gustave Flaubert

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. 58 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 sayings 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 views from Henry Miller

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. 12 more 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

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 other thoughts from Samuel Butler

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

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 sayings from Thomas Carlyle

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

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. 68 more sayings from Samuel Butler

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

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

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 wisdom & wit from Orison Swett Marden

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 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. 20 more quotes from Thomas Aquinas

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

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

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 other wisdom & wit from Steve Prefontaine

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. 23 thoughts from Paul Cezanne

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

All things are difficult before they are easy. 45 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts from Evan Esar

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. 25 quotes 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 sayings 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 views from Alvin Ailey

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. 13 more quotes 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 quotes from Albert Schweitzer

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way. 3 other 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 wisdom & wit from Steve Prefontaine

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

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. 56 other quotes 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 more wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Thomas Aquinas

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. 96 other views 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 more quotes from Virginia Woolf

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

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. 37 other wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke

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

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 quotes 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 other views from Thomas Aquinas

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

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

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. 12 sayings 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 sayings from Stendhal

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. 11 quotes 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 quotes 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 views from Thomas Aquinas

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. 3 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. 45 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 views from Gertrude Stein

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

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. 2 other quotes 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 sayings 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 other thoughts from Jessica Savitch

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

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. 5 quotes 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 views from Thomas A. Edison

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

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

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work. 23 sayings 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 quotes from Michel de Montaigne

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. 29 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Lana Turner

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

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. 45 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 more thoughts 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 views 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 other thoughts from Susan B. Anthony

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. 23 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 other wisdom & wit from Thomas A. Edison

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

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

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. 45 views 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 other quotes from Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 more wisdom & wit from George Allen, Sr.

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

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

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

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. 50 thoughts 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 quotes from Earl Nightingale

Fear God and work hard. 3 more views 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 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 views from Lawrence Welk

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

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

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. 6 views 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 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. 38 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. 27 other quotes 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 views from Bette Davis

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

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

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. 14 other thoughts 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 thoughts from William Hazlitt

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

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

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

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

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. 7 more quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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

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

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. 135 sayings 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 quotes from John F. Kennedy

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 thoughts from Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. 11 other thoughts from Norman Vincent Peale

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. 7 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 more thoughts from John F. Kennedy

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

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. 13 quotes 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 other quotes from Sigmund Freud

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. 26 quotes 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. 3 more sayings 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 other sayings 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 other quotes 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 other thoughts from James A. Baldwin

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. 18 quotes 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 sayings 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 sayings from Brigham Young

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

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

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. 6 sayings 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 quotes from Pearl S. Buck

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work. 53 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 more 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 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

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

My work is a game, a very serious game. 2 more 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 quotes from Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is hard work and bad for the health. 19 more quotes 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. 17 other quotes from Calvin Coolidge

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

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

By the work one knows the workman. 15 quotes 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 more thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. 10 quotes 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 other wisdom & wit 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 views 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 more views from Henry David Thoreau

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

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

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. 45 more views 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 quotes from Eric Hoffer

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

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work. 22 more 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 other quotes from Maria Montessori

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. 16 quotes 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 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 more thoughts from Ogden Nash

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. 18 quotes 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 quotes 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

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! 16 sayings 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

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

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

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. 4 more wisdom & wit from Al Capp

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. 26 thoughts 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 other thoughts from Grandma Moses

I'm working myself to death. 4 sayings from Alan Ladd

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

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. 21 more sayings 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 quotes from David O. McKay

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

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. 100 more wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. 28 thoughts 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 other views 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 thoughts from Dylan Thomas

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

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

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. 29 other quotes 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 sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. 100 more thoughts from Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

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