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Quotes About Work

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.
~ John Woolman
Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.
~ David Bosch
I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.
~ Donald Trump
Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus
~ John Wesley
It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.
~ Chet Atkins
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
~ Jaime Lerner
In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.
~ Gregg Allman
Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.
~ George Peabody
Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.
~ William Holden
The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.
~ Paul Westerberg
My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.
~ Maggi Hambling
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
~ Bob Hope
Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.
~ Sebastian Vettel
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
~ John Ruskin
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
~ Jahangir Khan
Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.
~ bell hooks
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it
~ David Hilbert
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
~ Dennis Hopper
And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.
~ Ashton Kutcher
There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.
~ Philip Guston
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
~ Walt Disney