Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

The workman still is greater than his work.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

The world belongs to the energetic.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

To be is to be related.

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.