Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be HIs partners in completing the work of creation.

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

One's first responsible job is the great revealer - far more than school.

Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process.

One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Patience is also a form of action.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

People do not get tired out from working where work is intelligently handled. Work, if it is interesting, is a stimulant. It's worry and a lack of interest in what one does that tire and discourage. Every one of us should have our pet interests-as many as we can handle efficiently and happily. Our interests should never be allowed to lag or get cold so that all enthusiasm is spent. Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up to your interests-feeding them as they feed you!

People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating- the energy they are emanating will attract their circumstances.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.