Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!

Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Drank a lot of take home pay.

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.