Quotes About Work

I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.

I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour.

Always give 100% — unless you're donating blood.

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

The wordsmith cuts saws for a living.

Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home – I love the culture clash of the city.

I'm also an Army brat, an Army wife, a community volunteer and your neighbor. I'm passionate about my family, my community, my work and by the grace of God I happen to have a professional outlet where all of that comes together.

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

I had an attitude about some work, like television sitcoms. It was selling your soul.

Don't pick the wrong target when you're angry, and don't hurt the ones you love or the ones who love you, because if you keep a good attitude and are prepared to do your work, you just might get an opportunity out of the blue.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

Enjoyable work is creative work,

After all, it is far better, reasonably, to have continual satisfaction and mild enjoyment in your job than to daily do something you detest only because it pays you that big money that makes the occasional more expensive pleasures possible.

Nobody wants to work. Not even the breath wants to work.

Well I'll be damned, thought Barbarotti. He's telling me . . . he's actually telling me to go home, lie on my bed and think. In paid work time. For a whole day. 'Not a bad idea,' Barbarotti said, getting quickly to his feet. 'Certainly worth a try. Er . . . I'll be back tomorrow, then?

Isn't that what usually happens? You know who did it, but you have to work your butts off to the knowledge into proof.

It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.

It feels kind of cool to come back from work every day without having killed anybody.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

All my own making," Estelle said. "Oh, of course, sister held the nails and bossed, but I did it. I like it, too. It's more fun than working red poppies on tidies—that's about all they'll let you do back East." "It doesn't matter much what you do out here," said Rivers, meaningly. "Oh yes, it does. Some things are wrong anywhere; but there are other things which people think are wrong that are only unusual," she answered, and he knew she knew what he meant.