Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy - it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

All progress is experimental.

All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.

All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself. ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

A man's perfection is his work.

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.

Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter lack of doubt about the value of their activities (or at least an internal impulse that drives through any such angst); and above all, a capacity to work (or at least to be mentally alert for unexpected insights) at every available moment of every day of their lives.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged to adopt: a positive attitude "attracts" or "fulfils", depending on which author's weird science you go with, postiive results, with little or no action on your part required. Herein, too, lies the answer to the question I once posed ...: would it be enough just to fake a winning attitude? No way, according to Doyle.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!