1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
George Halas

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
Richard Nelson Bolles

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Peter Ustinov

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
Paul Ryan

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
William Feather

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen

By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
Stevie Wonder

Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.
Marc Chagall

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
Bill Budge

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
Ron Livingston

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
Lawrence Welk

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
Gloria Steinem

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
Dmitri Mendeleev

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb