Work

38 quotes.

• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Attributed to Confucius

• Nothing will work unless you do.

  Maya Angelou

• Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

• All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

  Aristotle

• Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

  Al Capp

• As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

  Ken Blanchard

• Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and groans.

  Anonymous

• Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

  Henry Ford

• Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants.

  Anonymous

• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

  Maria Montessori

• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgement . .

  Leonardo da Vinci

• For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work for it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

• For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

  Gabriel Heatter

• He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.

  Henry B. Wilson

• He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.

  The Talmud

• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  Thomas Jefferson

• If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

  Albert Einstein

• If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

  Eilliam Feather

• In fact, one thing that I have noticed . . . is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.

  Brian E. Moore

• It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.

  French management saying.

• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson, 200 and 400 meter world record holder

• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.

  Mathew Browne

• No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

  Albert Einstein

• Nobody was born nonviolent, No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.

  Lanza Del Vasto

• Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.

  Madge Micheels-Cyrus

• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter F. Drucker

• The beginning is the most important part of the work.

  Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B

• The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

  John Ousterhout

• The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.

  Milo Bloom

• The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

• The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

  Raymond Williams

• The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

  J.N. Fadenburg

• The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

  Robert Frost

• We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

  Carlos Castaneda

• Work hard to create in your children a good self-image. It's the most important thing you can do to insure their success.

  Indian Prayer

• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

  Kahlil Gibran

• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

  George Sand

• I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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