1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
Jim Carrey

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.
Harry Connick, Jr.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.
Maria Bartiromo

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
John Ruskin

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John Ruskin

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
Jim Carrey

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
Jim Carrey

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
Guy Kawasaki

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
John Dewey

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
James Russell Lowell

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Rush Limbaugh

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Stendhal

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne