Work Quotes

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Richard Dawkins

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Orison Swett Marden

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Thomas Jefferson

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Harry S. Truman

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Henry Ward Beecher

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Albert Camus

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Rumi

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Theodore Roosevelt

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Leo Tolstoy

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

Tennessee Williams

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Stephen Hawking

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Henry David Thoreau

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

Rush Limbaugh

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure.

Frederick P. Brooks

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Thomas Aquinas