Work Quotes

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Pablo Picasso

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Richard Simmons

Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don't have that problem.

Ronald Reagan

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

Abraham Lincoln

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Stephen Covey

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

Zig Ziglar

First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

Bertrand Russell

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

Marilyn Monroe

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Julie Andrews

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Louis L'Amour

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Vincent Van Gogh

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Benjamin Franklin

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

William Carlos Williams

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Fats Domino

Now ... if you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.

Terry Pratchett