Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

The longer the title, the less important the job.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds of the youth of Zion the eloquence, the inexpressible eloquence of work, I shall feel fully repaid.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not...

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

The more you think, the more time you have.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.

The only way round is through.

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head? And did my [fired white-collar workers] boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reach some kind of personal nadir that their probem is entirely of their own making.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.