Quotes About Work

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.

If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!

Love makes one fitt for any work.

Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

Congressional leaders on the Republican side are hoping chief of staff is [Reince] Priebus. They see Priebus as somebody who they can clearly work with.

We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals.

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

I hope that's what the taxpayers of Great Britain expect, is expect us to, when we make investments in countries, that they work. And they don't work if a nation doesn't invest in its people.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.