Work Quotes

We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

We work to become, not to acquire.

As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

I am exhausted if I don't work.

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

Play needs direction as well as work.

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

Don't do anything that isn't play

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.

I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

Do what you like, but like what you do.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.