1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Jim Valvano

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
Charlie Sheen

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.
Charlie Sheen

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.
Charlie Sheen

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Steve Jobs

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers