1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
L'Wren Scott

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Charles Kingsley

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Ramakrishna

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie

Evil gains work their punishment.
Sophocles

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.
Helen Reddy

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.
Kim Kardashian

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
Daniel Goleman

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
Mark Harmon

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.
Scott Adams

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
Thomas Aquinas

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
Jenny McCarthy

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
Thomas Aquinas

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
Quentin Tarantino