Work Quotes

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles M. Schwab

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Charles R. Brown

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Steve Jobs

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Abraham Lincoln

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Cicely Tyson

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Frederick Douglass

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Lance Morrow

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known

Charles Dickens

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Orson Scott Card

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

David Cameron

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

Steve Jobs

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Voltaire

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

Cate Blanchett

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Mark Twain

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Isak Dinesen