Work Quotes

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

A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty. Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works. Don't win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

Orson Scott Card

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

Steve Maraboli

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

Gustave Flaubert

I still work out on a daily basis.

Clint Eastwood

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

Jennifer Weiner

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

Pete Coors

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Ben Affleck

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Angela Davis

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglass

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Agha Hasan Abedi

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

Pearl S. Buck

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

Irvin S. Cobb

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

Peter Ustinov

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Johnny Cash

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Peter Drucker

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Peter Drucker

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

Harvey Fierstein

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Joel Osteen