Work Quotes
“If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.”
-- Robert Kiyosaki
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
-- Richard Bach
“People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.”
-- Henry Louis Gates
“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.”
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
“When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.”
-- Gordon Ramsay
“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”
-- Dale Carnegie
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
-- Dale Carnegie
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
-- Rumi
“Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”
-- Chanakya
“Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.”
-- Alice Hoffman
“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
-- Thomas Carlyle
“I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.”
-- Tony Shalhoub