Quotes About Work

There are certain mysteries, certain secrets in my own work which even I don't understand, nor do I try to do so.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

Many stubborn errors of assertion and denial, he went on, are the result of some good minds in each generation having claimed to do the work of twenty or a hundred and claiming, at the same time, that they have put their finger on the "heart of the matter.

The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made of them day after day, hour after hour.

We're a bit like criminal lawyers. We're the public face of things, but it's the civil lawyers who do the serious work, in the shadows.

Forgetting takes a lot of work. You have to constantly remember that you are supposed to forget something. Surely, that's how every ideology functions.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

The days you work are the best days.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

The wealth we have is not ours forever. It is in our custody while we have breath and hands to do the Lord's work. And we must honor God by honoring our custodial responsibilities.

see worry as a waste of time because, in actuality, worrying doesn't work!

If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing.* One

Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its immediate benefits. I don't think many readers finishing a book ask themselves how many hours of anguish and domestic calamities those two hundred pages have cost the author or how much he received for his work …

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep, the trains you have never failed to catch.

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. ... Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work.