Work Quotes

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

~ Anna Howard Shaw

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

~ Annabelle Wallis

I'll take the stairs instead of the elevator, or when I'm on a phone call, I'll do squats or pace the room when I'm talking. We're modern women! We have to figure out how to make it work, right?

~ Ivanka Trump

I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.

~ Christina Milian

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

~ Tim Allen

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

~ Barbra Streisand

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

~ Candice Bergen

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

~ Alan Autry

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

~ Victoria Principal

Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

~ Zach Wamp

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

~ Barbra Streisand

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

~ Erica Jong

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

~ Anita Hill

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

~ Judy Chicago

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

~ Karen Morley

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

~ Kathleen Kennedy

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

~ Michael Johnson

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

~ Knute Rockne

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

~ Jerry Rice

I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

~ Florence Griffith Joyner

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

~ Edwin Louis Cole

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

~ Chris Rock

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

~ Marlee Matlin

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

~ Felicia Day

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

~ Jackie Kennedy

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

~ Norman Rockwell

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

~ Maria Semple

In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people.

~ Jim Goldberg

The days you work are the best days.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

Even the most meticulous historians work subjectively. The historian's point of view, his or her selection of subject and sources, the emphasis, the tone - all of these lead to subjective history, inevitably so. I do not say this as a criticism, merely as an observation.

~ David Ebershoff

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

~ Jessamyn West

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

~ Mattie Stepanek

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

~ Keith O'brien

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

~ Marty Meehan

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

~ Barack Obama