Quotes | Work

Forget about what you couldn’t achieve yesterday and think of the wonderful things today has for you. Work with all your might towards them to make your tomorrow extraordinarily bright. Good morning!

A strong woman doesn’t seek revenge. She moves on and lets karma do her dirty work.

Whether it is your work, your marriage, or anything else you do…it is up to you to make it wonderful.

Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.

I may not always be offered work, but I’ll always have my family.

The prime minister’s office is not something that one enjoys.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Home is where I work and I work everywhere.

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work, and relationship to sex.

Play is a child’s work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

It is easy to believe that life is long and one’s gifts are vast — easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

Some judge of authors’ names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

When I prepare for a match, it’s like work, even the way I have to shower and put on my makeup.

Keep working even when no one is watching.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

It’s a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.

The amount of money that is in your bank at the time of your death is the extra work you did which wasn’t necessary.

Even the mundane task may have something to teach you – especially if it’s a task you haven’t performed before.

I’ve always been on the business side – running P&L and working with clients.

I was always first in, last out, but not inefficiently.

If you’re not making use of even the most routine assignment to learn something, realize that many of your colleagues and coworkers are.

It’s important to experience as many parts of an organization as you can – because someday, you may have the chance to lead that organization.

Work is the best remedy, both moral and aesthetic.

O man you are busy working for the world and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

When you see validation for a life’s work and dedication, it’s a beautiful day.

The work of a financial analyst falls somewhere in the middle between that of a mathematician and of an orator.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.

If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.

The best part of making a list is, you guessed it, crossing things off.

I began furiously making lists, and more lists, until I was making lists of lists . . .

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.