981 private quotes tagged work

“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.” — Voltaire

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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” — Bertrand Russell

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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” — Alexander Pope

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“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.” — Robert Frost

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“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.” — André Gide

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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” — Anatole France

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“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.” — Steve Jobs

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“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” — Michael Jordan

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

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“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.” — Abraham Lincoln

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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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“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.” — Pablo Picasso

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“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.” — Helen Keller

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“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” — Nelson Mandela

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“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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“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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