Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.

Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?

J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Just because you're part of 'Twilight' does not mean you're a superstar. It means that you're given the opportunity to maybe become one later if you work hard. Once fandom goes away, which it will very soon, it's all about having your priorities straight and working hard.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Little things affect little minds.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Make good use of bad rubbish.