981 private quotes tagged work

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” — Alexander Pope

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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” — Bertrand Russell

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“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.” — Voltaire

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“So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.” — Sheryl Sandberg

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“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” — Michael Jordan

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“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.” — André Gide

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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.” — Pablo Picasso

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“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.” — Steve Jobs

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?” — Ronald Reagan

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“We work to become, not to acquire.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.” — George Carlin

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“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” — Woody Allen

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“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” — Anne Frank

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“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.” — Helen Keller

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