Work Quotes
“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.”
-- Earl Nightingale
“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
-- Virginia Woolf
“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
“The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.”
-- Seth Godin
“Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”
-- James A. Baldwin
“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
-- Elbert Hubbard
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
“Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.”
-- Caspar David Friedrich
“What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.”
-- Joan Rivers
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
-- Peter Drucker
“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”
-- Thomas Sowell
“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
-- Thomas Huxley