Work Quotes

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.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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

Work is much more fun than fun.

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

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

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

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

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

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.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

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

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

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.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

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.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

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

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Without labor nothing prospers.

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

Work alone is noble.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

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

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.