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Quotes About Work

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
~ Armand Hammer
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
~ Don Meyer
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
~ Roseanne Barr
The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.
~ James Madison
The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.
~ Meister Eckhart
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
~ Agnes Martin
There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.
~ Big Sean
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
~ David Lee Roth
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
~ Marc Chagall
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
~ Charles R. Schwab
I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.
~ Jeff Gannon
I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.
~ Frances Harper
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
~ Georg Baselitz
I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.
~ Big Pun
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
~ Marie Corelli
Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
~ Oscar Wilde
The land belongs to the people who work it.
~ Emiliano Zapata
I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.
~ Brad Pitt
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
~ Arianna Huffington
The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.
~ Carrie Fisher