Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

Work hard at work worth doing.

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.

Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Work, work, work, is the main thing.

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.