Quotes
Quotes about Work
Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you with my works? I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should present me with yours.
This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
The idea is to make decisions and act on themâto decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10].
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care; No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand-- Contempt is Failure's share!
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.âSpencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.
To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?.
I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.
