1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Sasha Cohen

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi