Work quotes

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

Joseph Ross

Oh it's a disgrace to see the
Human-race in a rat race, rat race
You got your horse race
You got your dog race
You got the human-race
But this is a rat race, rat race.

Bob Marley

The greatest danger for most is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Horace

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Jodie Foster

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

Aristotle

The best work is not what is most difficult for you, it is what you do best.

Jean Paul Sartre

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Karl Marx

It is clear that a worker who has not enough food cannot achieve a good work output. I already said yesterday that every head of a plant, and I too at the top, was naturally interested in having well-fed and satisfied workers, because badly fed, dissatisfied workers make more mistakes and produce poor results.

Albert Speer

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application, practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

Fay Weldon

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Aldous Huxley

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Christina Rossetti

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

English Proverb

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Fanny Brice

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

English Proverb

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

English Proverb

A poor workman always blames his tools.

English Proverb

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

Harvey MacKay

You must work, we must all work
To make the world worthy of its children.

Pablo Casals

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Henry Kissinger

Rest, the sweet sauce of labor.

Plutarch

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

Fernando Pessoa

People need to enjoy themselves because that's all they have. Many people in Hawaii are working two and three jobs, so it needs to be fun.

Bob Basso

The work on a cruise ship is extremely difficult if you aren't a third-world employee. If an American is unhappy with their job, they'll tell you to take this job and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.

Bob Basso

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

Auguste Rodin

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Arthur Brisbane

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Jean Cocteau

He who cannot rest, cannot work.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.

Phyllis McGinley

Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

Ben Kingsley

Time for work, yet take much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.

George de Wilde

If you don’t believe in the resurrection of the dead, look at any office at closing time.

Robert Townsend

The businessman is a person to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

George Bernard Shaw

Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.

Scott Adams