Work Quotes - Page 3

Work alternated with needful rest is the salvation of man or woman.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.

Mignon McLaughlin

Work is the province of cattle.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary a batch of technical skills and equipment and perhaps a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things of their complexity fascination and unexpectedness.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination.

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

Louise Nevelson

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Harriet Van Home

Give me a man who sings at his work.

To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?

Katherine Graham

When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

Marilyn Machlowitz

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith

Whenever it is possible a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

Johann von Goethe

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.

Jean de La Fontaine

You have to do what you love to do not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.

Napoléon Bonaparte

If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too.

Theresa Helburn

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Nathaniel Emmons

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

Work is creativity accompanied by the comforting realization that one is bringing forth something really good and necessary with a conviction that a sudden arbitrary cessation would cause a sensitive void produce a loss.

Jenny Heynrichs

Some people are born to lift heavy weights some are born to juggle golden balls.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

Katharine Hepburn

The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous down the black lines over and over but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.

Do your duty until it becomes your joy.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing and if you are good enough at it the money will come.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

The work praises the man.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

When I die my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified if he does it right.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small you never know where it may lead.

Don't be afraid of hard work.

Marian Wright Edelman

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.

Jack Kemp

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

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