Quotes About Work

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing