Work Quotes

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."

"There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born."

"Labor gives birth to ideas."

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

"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."

"I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped."

"For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it."

"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

"I work to stay alive."

"For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship."

"I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view."

"My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in."

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."

"Inspiration comes of working every day."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"If you work hard, have the right mindset, right intentions, things will fall into place."

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself."

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."

"Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition."

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."

"It's just racing. Sometimes you have difficult moments, and then you try to work hard, and you keep working hard, and you overcome the situation. It's as simple as that."

"I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man."

"Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning."

"A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible."

"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."

"And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."

"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

"It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work."

"If you can laugh together, you can work together."

"The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better."

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

"In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote."

"I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'"

"Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."

"The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in."

"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place."

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."