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Quotes About Work

A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.
~ Chanel Iman
The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.
~ Cheryl Heller
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
~ William Faulkner
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
~ Charles de Gaulle
If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?
~ Evangeline Lilly
An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.
~ Auren Hoffman
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
~ Joseph Barbera
Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.
~ Leila Janah
Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.
~ Lulu Guinness
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
~ James A. Garfield
Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.
~ Yelena Bonner
Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.
~ Emmanuelle Riva
With sociology one can do anything and call it work
~ Malcolm Bradbury
We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are
~ Alan Ryan
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
~ Scott Baio
In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.
~ Robin Leach
My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
~ Compay Segundo
Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.
~ Scott Berkun
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds
~ Carl Honore
Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
~ Eglantyne Jebb
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
~ Adam Ant
Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.
~ Jacob Moleschott