Work Quotes

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

~ Robert Rodríguez

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,And what is it to work with love?It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.Work is love made visible

~ Kahlil Gibran

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

~ Anton Chekhov

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.

~ Thomas S. Monson

I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.

~ Raymond Carver

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

~ Ken Follett

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

~ Kenzaburō Ōe

‎A change of work is the best rest.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

~ Rolf Potts

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

~ Susan Cain

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

~ Voltaire

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

~ Kenneth Grahame

Anything is better than stagnation.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do, the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

~ Andrew Jackson

Don’t worry, I’m not quitting. I’ve decided I’m going to stay andmake his life a living hell while I run his business into the ground.--Kim to Abe

~ Devon Rhodes

If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge.

~ Erin Mccarthy

We spent our lives making livings.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

If you're not inthe mood, you can't do that stuff right.

~ J.d. Salinger

[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy.(pg. 44, The Unsettling of America)

~ Wendell Berry

Daja: He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other. Lark: I didn't say they liked it.- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

~ Tamora Pierce

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

~ Brandon Sanderson

There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.

~ Scott Dikkers

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

~ Mark Twain

I love my job when I'm not there.

~ Paul R. Linde

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.

~ Manoj Arora

Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

~ Jeff Lindsay

If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.

~ Ogden Nash

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

~ Robert Frost

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.

~ J.g. Ballard

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.It has been objected, that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

~ Karl Marx

Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.

~ B. Traven

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

~ Albert Einstein

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

~ Wendell Berry

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

~ Hilari Bell