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.
Albert CamusThis desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMy experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor RooseveltI think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.
Paul AusterI never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt DisneyWork is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil GibranThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma BombeckTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda MeirI don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody AllenWhen you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil GibranI will never retire unless I have to.
Dolly PartonI didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
Margaret AtwoodThe miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother TeresaThe equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
Fidel CastroIf 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 HemingwayI work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
Lady GagaBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas CarlyleI like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
Clint EastwoodMy great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya AngelouMany people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother TeresaOur life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother TeresaLet the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Nikola TeslaBeing a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma BombeckEarly on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
Charles BukowskiMy favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.
Groucho MarxYes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
Barack ObamaWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
Tennessee WilliamsWhen you say, ‚I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,‘ people always say, ‚Oh, really?‘ They think of the TV show. So I just say, ‚A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.‘
Taylor SwiftDespite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
Stephen CoveyWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. ForbesThere is spontaneity to my work.
Lady GagaPeople who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.
Paul AusterWork is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar WildeThe only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas CarlyleFor people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
Robert KiyosakiI only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.
Ludwig van BeethovenEveryone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon HillTears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea BallouGod is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
HeraclitusWork is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
Abraham MaslowI’m a workin‘ girl.
Dolly PartonIn action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur SchopenhauerHowever great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
Charles SpurgeonIt was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles DickensA man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas CarlyleThis character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.
Adam SandlerIn the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert CamusChristmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.
Kobe BryantI think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Charles SpurgeonI’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.
Jim CarreyWork consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark TwainLaziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne FrankI have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S. TrumanAs for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine HepburnIt isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor RooseveltLet there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson MandelaI am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David ThoreauOur fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale CarnegieA man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin