981 private quotes tagged work

“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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“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.” — Robert Frost

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

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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Confucius

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

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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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“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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“Evil gains work their punishment.” — Sophocles

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“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou

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

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

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“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” — Carl Jung

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

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

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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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