Top 1000 Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Management must manage!

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.

College is something I've always said I wanted to do, but you're going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I'm already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I'm in my own film college: filming a TV show.

By the work one knows the workman.

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Sometimes when you turn a hobby into a job, it becomes work.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can't be safe. Life's not safe. Your work isn't safe. When you leave the house, it isn't safe. The air you breathe isn't going to be safe, not for very long. That's why you have to enjoy the moment.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

The job is so fantastic, you don't need a hobby. The hobby is going to work.

Honor lies in honest toil.

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Some of our finest work comes through service to others.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'

Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

Play is the work of childhood.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.

Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.