Work Quotes - Page 4

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

Ambition is destruction only competence matters.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Here I am where I ought to be.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

Federico Fellini

Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.

Galen

Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

John D. Rockefeller III

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The happy people are those who are producing something.

William Ralph Inge

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

Arthur Christopher Benson

Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.

Mary Daly

When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

Tennessee Williams

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

Bertrand Russell

After fifty years of living it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Menander

The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger. ... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated why it's just as good as sex.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

Anonymous

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing the act of work everything.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Winifred Holtby

Like plowing housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs milk or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

If a man will not work he shall not eat.

Bible

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life the true source of human welfare.

He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.

Erasmus

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

Plutarch

God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.

When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

I work as my father drank.

George Bernard Shaw

While I am busy with little things I am not required to do greater things.

St. Francis de Sales

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Cicero

A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.

Theodore Roosevelt

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

How do I work? I grope.

Albert Einstein

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose faithful work will answer for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play.

Dr. Laurence Susser

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel that is as a symbol of reward and recognition in the last analysis of acceptance by one's fellowmen.

Otto Rank

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In a professional once engaged the performance of the job comes first.

If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

G.K. Chesterton

A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

Anonymous

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjöld

God gave man work not to burden him but to bless him and useful work willingly cheerfully effectively done has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.

Walter R. Courtenay

Work is more fun than fun.

When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

Raymond Queneau

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

Goethe

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