Quotes About Work

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

By the time they're in college, it's gone too far. They've had twelve years without disciplined learning and they don't know how to apply themselves. They haven't learned to study or to pace their work so that projects get completed on time. They fall asleep in lectures because they expect to be entertained not educated.

Give a brief overview of the value of your idea, no more than 5 or 10 minutes. Then ask people to pair up and write on a piece of paper what would be the same or different at work if the idea were adopted. From this exercise, people begin to see the value of it on their own.

Je suis un artiste, et mon Å"uvre, c'est Moi.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

Jeter's work ethic, kneaded into the dough and manifesting itself in the leavening of his metric loaf, has already nourished the dossier with which his contracts are negotiated.

I want to be vigilant not to resent, but to pursue the work of disarming resentment.

The busy have no time for tears.

Is yet within the unread events of time. Thus far, go forth, thou lay, which I will back Against the same given quantity of rhyme, For being as much the subject of attack As ever yet was any work sublime, By those who love to say that white is black. So much the better!—I may stand alone, But would not change my free thoughts for a throne.

The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull;

Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed.

Consider standing out by being transparent, authentic and professional with a clear message of what you expect from your clients and customers when it comes to the services that require work from them.

Sometimes you can spend your whole life waiting for the day you leave work, the day you're going to start enjoying life, start living, start getting to know your family. But by then it's over—it's too late. You're gone.

But right now Dianne Klister seems a stranger, and Lily realizes she's seeing her girlfriend in full-fledged work mode for the first time ever. And she appears every bit as formidable as the press has always made her out to be.

With aging comes the potential to accrue many losses: health, family, friends, work, and purpose.

she added, I'd still have to answer to insurance companies with their time-consuming mounds of paperwork, which would take me away from patient care. Has it really come to this? I thought. Writing as a way to support a living as a doctor? Didn't it used to be the other way around?

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.