Quotes
Quotes about Work
God respects us when we work and loves us when we sing.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.
Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
