1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas Sowell

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Peter Drucker

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
Helen Hayes

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
Ed Bradley

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Ron White

Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck Palahniuk

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter Drucker

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Nhat Hanh

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.
Daniel Radcliffe

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
Kinky Friedman

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
George Allen, Sr.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
W. E. B. Du Bois