1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
David Bowie

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Thomas Huxley

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
Henry Rollins

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
William Moulton Marston

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.
Fritz Scholder

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
Mattie Stepanek

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Warren Beatty

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.
Keith O'Brien

I don't work at being ordinary.
Paul McCartney

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
Derek Jeter

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
Henry Rollins

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
Eugene V. Debs

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
Julie Andrews