981 private quotes tagged work

“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.” — Edwin Land

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“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” — Stanislaw Lec

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“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.” — Abdul Kalam

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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas Adams

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“Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.” — Napoleon Hill

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“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'” — Lao Tzu

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“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.” — Will Rogers

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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” — Maya Angelou

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“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.” — Ronald Reagan

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“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.” — Oscar Wilde

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“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.” — Robert Frost

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“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” — Pablo Picasso

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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” — Alan Watts

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“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.” — John Burroughs

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“Evil gains work their punishment.” — Sophocles

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“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.” — William Feather

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“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” — Michelangelo

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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” — Emile Zola

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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” — George Eliot

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“It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to 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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“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” — Fred Rogers

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