Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I don't believe in talking about my work. I let it speak for itself. I'd rather make money than just talk about my business. People think that because I don't talk much to the media, I am arrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do have an attitude.

I don't care how many friends you have on Facebook or how many followers you have on Twitter. Those are not actual friends or truly followers. I care about how many people will miss you if you're not back here again tomorrow.

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

I find that the more I do the more ability the Almighty gives me.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

If something is important enough to you that you feel the urge to donate your money or time to it, I think it's best to try to express that form of giving through your career, not just as something you do on the side. If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade. In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.