Work Quotes

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Robert Frost

I don't want to die as long as I can work the minute I can not, I want to go.

Susan B. Anthony

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Thomas Aquinas

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

John Ruskin

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

James Levine

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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.

Thomas Aquinas

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Publilius Syrus

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Earl Nightingale

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

John Burroughs

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Neil Gaiman

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

Michael Chang

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Emily Bronte

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fred W. Fitch

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Robert B. Reich

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

C. Northcote Parkinson

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Rosa Parks

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Joseph Parkinson

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

Lee Iacocca