981 private quotes tagged work

“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.” — Elbert Hubbard

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

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“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.” — Plato

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“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” — Edmund Burke

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

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“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The pay is good and I can walk to work.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Evil gains work their punishment.” — Sophocles

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“The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?” — Tennessee Williams

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“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” — Khalil Gibran

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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 always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.” — Tennessee Williams

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“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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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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“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” — E. B. White

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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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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” — Pablo Picasso

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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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