Work Quotes

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Our great weariness comes from work not done.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

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

Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

By the work one knows the workmen.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Well done is better than well said.

Well done is better than well said.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Never mistake motion for action.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

There is no substitute for hard work.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job.

I would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.

A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

The days you work are the best days.

When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him, but to the object.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.