Work Quotes

“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.”

-- Michelle Obama

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

-- Robert Fulghum

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

-- Aristotle

“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.”

-- Byron Dorgan

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

-- Leonardo da Vinci

“When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.”

-- Calvin Coolidge

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

-- John D. Rockefeller

“I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.”

-- Ellen DeGeneres

“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”

-- John Ruskin

“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”

-- Elbert Hubbard