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Quotes About Work

We spend most of the time searching for love, but once we get what we want, we stop working, but the real work still has to be done.
~ Bertice Berry
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Sto lavorando duro per preparare il mio prossimo errore.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Ui: I don't muzzle the animal that does my heavy lifting. I overlook the foibles of my employees.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Vi što nas u?ite da živeti treba Bez greha i bez misli kakve zle, Morate najpre da nam date hleba, Pa tad zborite: s tim po?inje sve. Svi vi što volite svoj trbuh i naš rad Pamtite dobro, za ceo vek: Ma kako stvari obrtali sad, Prvo je ždranje. Moral - potom tek. Siromah mora prvo mo?i, zna se, Deo poga?e da odse?e zna se.
~ Bertolt Breht
what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
~ Bertrand Russell
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
~ Bertrand Russell
One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
~ Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
~ Bertrand Russell
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
~ Beryl Markham
Work is good," he said to himself. "Work is healthful and right. It keeps men sane and well balanced. No one with health and strength should step out of the ranks.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn't he needed at home?
~ Beth Kephart
You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.
~ Bethenny Frankel
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
~ Bette Davis
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
~ Bette Davis
I work to stay alive.
~ Bette Davis
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
~ Bette Davis
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for any lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
~ Bette Davis
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
~ Bette Midler
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
~ Betty Bender
_Sunday!_ In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all of the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest
~ Betty MacDonald
The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.
~ Beverley Nichols
Rule number one of crime scene work: If it's wet and sticky and it ain't yours, don't touch it. -Terry Cooper, crime scene specialist, Georgia Bureau of Investigation
~ Beverly Connor
Most men like you are always interested in women like myself, but what they fail to see is this is my job, it isn't necessarily who I am. People tend to meld the two and fail to realize that distinction.
~ Beverly Jenkins