981 private quotes tagged work

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.” — Oscar Wilde

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“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.” — William Feather

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“Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou

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“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.” — Robert Frost

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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” — Pablo Picasso

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“I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.” — Michael Jordan

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“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” — George Eliot

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“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” — Carl Jung

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“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.” — John Burroughs

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“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” — Fred Rogers

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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.” — Will Rogers

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“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.” — Zakk Wylde

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“Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” — Louisa May Alcott

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“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.” — Abdul Kalam

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“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” — Anna Quindlen

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“The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.” — Brian Eno

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