Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

God never made his work for man to mend.

Good workmen are seldom rich.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.

Housework can kill you if done right.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.

How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

How do I work? I grope.

How Sunday into Monday melts!

I ain't got a job cause I ain't got a car, so I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work tasks should encroach upon our personal time, but it does mean that employees today expect more from the companies for whom they work. Why shouldn't your workplace reflect your values? Why is "giving back" not a part of our jobs? The answer for us is to integrate philanthropy with work.

Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field.... Access to employment [shall not be] made to depend on registration in certain parties or in organization which deal with the distribution of employment.... It is necessary that humanity turn its gaze toward the action of God ... to aid and redeem mankind from all its ills.

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.