Work Quotes
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.
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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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What did this long-range goodwill mean, and what did it say about the social contract that allowed a rich man to free all of his descendents from the need to work over the course of almost two centuries?
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
