981 private quotes tagged work

“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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“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?” — Jackie Kennedy

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“It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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

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“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 Tennyson

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“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.” — Robert Frost

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“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” — Stephen Hawking

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“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.” — Benjamin Franklin

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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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“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 consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” — Mark Twain

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

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

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

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“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” — Henry Ford

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“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” — Nelson Mandela

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

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

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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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