Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Most saints live to regret their career choice.

Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.