Work Quotes

31760 Work quotes by 12929 unique authors

Aim high, work hard, and love your family. — Deborah Roberts
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life. — Eugene Delacroix
Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter… — Edward Hoagland
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listen close and you can hear, Please, bless us and forgive us, and make us good here and strong here. Let us get along here.… — Janet Morris
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work. — Elbert Hubbard
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the… — Mary Caroline Richards
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central… — Don DeLillo
O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should… — William Shakespeare
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover… — Patrick Henry
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts… — Aldous Huxley
I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work,… — Steve Ballmer
Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out... — Dave Matthews
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Unknown Author
It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall… — Scott Carpenter
How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There… — Robert H. Goddard
To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from… — Henri Mignet
A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question. — Unknown Author
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. — Christina Rossetti
If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to… — Kelly Ripa
What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work! — Dale Carnegie

Who Wrote These Work Quotes

12,929 authors contributed a total of 31,760 Work Quotes, led by these top contributors: