Work Quotes

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

William Shatner

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

Voltaire

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Gaulle

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Laurence J. Peter

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Pope John Paul II

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

St. John Chrysosatom

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Richard Cumberland

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Evelyn Ashford

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Marion Javits

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

Hillary Clinton

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Diane Ravitch

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Angela Davis

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.

Mark Twain

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance

Samuel Johnson

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

Mel Brooks

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

Kenny Chesney

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

David Bowie