Work Quotes

“I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.”

-- Barack Obama

“Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.”

-- Sally Schneider

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”

-- Voltaire

“Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.”

-- Ann Rule

“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.”

-- Baltasar Gracian

“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”

-- Woodrow Wilson

“America is at that awkward stage it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”

-- Claire Wolfe

“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”

-- Gertrude Stein

“I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”

-- Carl Sandburg

“Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.”

-- Mitt Romney