Quotes About Work

Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!

What's left undone to-day, To-morrow will not do. Waste not a day in vain digression: With resolute, courageous trust Seize every possible impression, And make it firmly your possession; You'll then work on, because you must.

The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind!

In the same way, the most restless of travellers ends up pining for his homeland once again, and discovers in his cottage, in the arms of his wife and amidst his children, and in the labours that are necessary to support them, that joy he sought in vain in the wide world.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.

When you're a doctor and you spend most of your life in a hospital, you honestly don't get to watch as much television as you think you might, and the power of television is enormous.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.