981 private quotes tagged work

“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.” — Samuel Butler

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“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.” — André Gide

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“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.” — Jack Welch

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“All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.” — Samuel Butler

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“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.” — Victor Hugo

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“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.” — Samuel Butler

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“The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.” — Voltaire

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“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.” — Gore Vidal

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“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle

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