Work Quotes

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe.

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

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

I don’t believe in magic. I believe in hard work.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.

The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.

Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

That which hinders your task is your task.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.