981 private quotes tagged work

“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” — Alan Watts

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

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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” — E. B. White

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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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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” — Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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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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“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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“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” — Bruce Lee

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

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“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.” — Buddha

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

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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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“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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“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.” — Coco Chanel

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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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“You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I'm going to work every single day, I don't think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!” — Mindy Kaling

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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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“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.” — George Allen, Sr.

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