Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Work.
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
Ralph Marston
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. Ecclesiastes 9:10
Bible
Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.
In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.
I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.
The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
Sir Heneage Ogilvie
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson
After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.
Don Alan Pennebaker
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
Don Marquis
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.
Amy Adams
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
Lady Gaga
Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.
Maria Bartiromo
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
Jack Kevorkian
I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.
Tim Tebow
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
Orson Scott Card