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Quotes About Work

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
~ Colleen Barrett
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
~ Jeff Miller
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
~ Kevin Bales
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
~ Barbara Kruger
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
~ Bobby Knight
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
~ Timothy Keller
Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.
~ John Lennon
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.
~ Michael Bierut
God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.
~ Stuart Wilde
My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.
~ K. Eric Drexler
Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
~ Aurangzeb
If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.
~ Dr. Dre
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
~ Tim Ferriss
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
~ Corrie Ten Boom
You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.
~ James Franco