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Quotes About Work

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
~ Catherine O'Hara
Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.
~ Heber J. Grant
When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
~ Ryan Tedder
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
~ Brian Swimme
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.
~ Yoko Ono
Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
~ Thomas Peterffy
To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.
~ Richard Proenneke
My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
~ T. Harv Eker
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
~ Thomas Carlyle
In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
~ Henry Ford
Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.
~ Pope Francis
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
~ Harry Crews
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
~ Khalil Gibran
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
~ Patrick Swayze
If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.
~ George Lois
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
~ Emil Nolde
God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
The light, colors, and energy of Ibiza are constant sources of inspirations for my work. I always leave Ibiza recharged and full of ideas for new shades, looks, and products.
~ Charlotte Tilbury
Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.
~ Phil Woods
Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
~ Bruce Lee
The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.
~ Gerald May