Quotes About Work

Real success is not visible. It has nothing to do with the size of your house, your batting average, or your bank account, or in our case, the number of medals you've managed to get. Those things are OK, granted. But success is how you feel every day. It's being satisfied with the day's work you've produced. It's feeling at ease with yourself when you go home at night.

Joule, that is the work done when one Newton acts through one metre.*

The scientific kind of energy with which we are dealing is officially defined as 'capacity for doing work', and it has the dimensions of 'force-multiplied-by-distance'.

But that goes for most of us, doesn't it? We look blankly at each other. Here I am, here you are. What are we doing here? What do you suppose it's all about? Let's dream on. Yes, that's my Dad and Mum over there on the piano top. My eldest boy is on the mantel piece...I go to work at eight and come home at five-thirty. When I retire they will give me a clock--with my name engraved on the back. Now you know all about me. Go away: I've forgotten you already.

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

Work is destiny. A man talks about the woman he loves, he might sound excited, but get him talking about his job, then check his eyes—that's the real him. A man is his job, kid, and I had no job, so I was a bum. A loser. America's a great place to be a winner, but it's hell's basement for losers. Three

Happiness, honor, and great estate, For those who patiently work and wait.

Washing dishes is the great equalizer. It solves many a dispute.

the old lament he had heard from the first enlisted sailors he had commanded. Why is there never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over?

The world doesn't pay you for what you know; it pays you for what you do.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

I'm a decent engineer with an analytical mind. Using my problem-solving skills to whack my husband became a challenge. A fun challenge, in fact. I wanted to put him away so I wouldn't have to pay the price for murdering him. What an exciting challenge for an engineer! Spousal murder as a work project. My juices started flowing.

Labor-saving technology was supposed to give us more leisure time, but a greater percentage of our waking hours is spent in work or work-related tasks than ever before, as we spin like squirrels in exercise cages, desperate to keep current with change and therefore employable.

It was an ordinary day, a Friday, twenty minutes til lunchtime, five hours til quitting time and the weekend, ten months til vacation, thirty-seven years til retirement. Then the phone rang.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office. Robert Frost

You don't want me. You're all hard work and deadlines! I'm... snowballs and fun times. I'm not a Guardian.

Your hard work and deadlines, and I'm snowballs and fun times

Money is just a way of measuring work, but you don't need money if everyone agrees that trading one kind of work for another will do just as well.

What do you call a snake who works for the government? A civil serpent!

The dead are home before us, daddy, she said. But we have work to do.

Look at what they do in a lifetime," she said. "These hands lit fires, cooked, wove a thousand blankets and carpets. They helped children into the world. When you are old," Hagar said, "look at your hands, Ish, and think of what they have done, good things and bad. Hands are like faces. Every scar a story

Such moments as these, such closeness to nature, are like a Sunday rest to all one's activities. 'In it thou shalt do no work'; in it alone one may 'listen to the voices' and receive what nature has to give and what man himself is hardly ever fit to receive.

Women can elect to put their jobs before family, but they will always be second to profits for the companies who employ them. This has been men's reality since the first paycheck, but now women have equal access to the same bitter pill of uncertainty and powerlessness

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.