Famous Work Quotes
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.
In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don’t flinch, don’t fall; hit the line hard.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work – the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Stay persistent and dedicated to your goals.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
By the work one knows the workman.
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.