Popular Quotes and Sayings about Work |
| Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? ~Edgar Bergen Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. ~Unknown Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. ~Elbert Hubbard If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ~Benjamin Franklin Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Tolstoy Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ~Peter Drucker A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ~Dorothy L. Sayers Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ~Henri-Fr%E9d%E9ric Amiel Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Bergson Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. ~Moses Ibn Ezra Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money. ~William Lyon Phelps The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. ~George Eliot Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. ~Thomas Carlyle Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. ~John Dryden Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself. ~Audrey Giorgi People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. ~Howard Newton Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. ~David McCullough The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. ~Wilfred A. Peterson Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. ~Henry George It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. ~Bette Davis Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure. ~The Mishnah The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. ~Maxine Hong Kingston ...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. ~John Ruskin In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. ~John Ruskin I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. ~Ayn Rand Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ~Theodore Roosevelt Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. ~Bill Watterson Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ~Abraham Lincoln Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~Thomas A. Edison All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ~Aristotle People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ~Ogden Nash Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. ~Henry David Thoreau Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. ~Voltaire When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. ~Voltaire He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. ~William Shakespeare My work is a game, a very serious game. ~M. C. Escher |