981 private quotes tagged work

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” — Mark Twain

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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” — Anne Frank

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Every noble work is at first impossible.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.” — William Feather

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“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“All things are difficult before they are easy.” — Thomas Fuller

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“We work to become, not to acquire.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.” — Bob Hope

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“If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.” — Richard Dawkins

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“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.” — Steve Jobs

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“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?” — Jackie Kennedy

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“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” — Nelson Mandela

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“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.” — Harry S. Truman

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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?” — Khalil Gibran

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“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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