Work Quotes
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
-- Vladimir Nabokov
“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.”
-- Johnny Depp
“It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.”
-- Rachael Ray
“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk
“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“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