Work Quotes
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Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
John Hughes
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You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
Oprah Winfrey
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I just believe that if I work hard and do well, who knows what the future holds?
Joaquin Castro
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The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.
Jim Talent
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I know how difficult it is for actors to get work, because I did casting for all those years.
Phyllis Smith
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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.
H. G. Wells
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Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.
Kendrick Lamar
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If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.
Napoleon Hill
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In all well-conducted concerns the law of 'selection of the fittest' sooner or later comes into happy action, when a loyal and attached set of men work together harmoniously for their own advantage as well as for that of their employers.
James Nasmyth
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There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.
Luke Donald
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Let the work speak for itself.
Anthony Caro
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Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.
Brian Tracy
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
Chief Joseph
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I work out seven days a week, and I love every minute of it. It really is a way just to get away. I weight train and do cardio and stay active as much as possible every day; I have to just to clear my head. I love to get into the gym.
Matt Cohen
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I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.
Keri Russell
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Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.
Luke Harding
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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.
Donald Hall
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If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
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When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.
J. B. Bickerstaff
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'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
P. G. Wodehouse
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I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
Jerry Falwell
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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
Barack Obama
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When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.
Jocko Willink