Work Quotes

"Hard work pays off"

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

"I get angry about things, then go on and work"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me"

Marcia Gay Harden, Actress

"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky"

Armand Hammer, Businessman

"I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together"

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President

"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music"

John Coltrane, Musician

"This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up"

Nancy Greene, Athlete

"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace"

Frederick W. Taylor, Scientist

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband"

Anna Faris, Actress

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along"

George Herbert, Poet

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work"

Robert Frost, Poet

"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"Nothing will work unless you do"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter"

George Will, Journalist

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others"

Buddha, Leader

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need"

Jo Bonner, Politician

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