Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

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

No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.

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 fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

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

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

no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

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.

No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be present with him; if he but love it--always assuming that his conscience approves--it brings an abounding satisfaction.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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

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.

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!

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

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

Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.

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

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

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.