Work Quotes

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Dag Hammarskjold

[W]enn ihr nicht mit Liebe, sondern nur mit Widerwillen arbeiten könnt, lasst besser eure Arbeit [...] und nehmt Almosen von denen, die mit Freude arbeiten.

Kahlil Gibran

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Stevie Wonder

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Katherine Mansfield

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day

George Eliot

The real minimum wage is zero unemployment.

Thomas Sowell

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Charles Baudelaire

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Eric Butterworth

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Eric Butterworth

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Wayne Gretzky

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

General George Patton

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

George Allen

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Thomas Kempis

The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

John Green

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

Jane Austen

I work until beer o'clock.

Stephen King

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Voltaire