Top 1000 Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?

A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

I think I've learned, really, just how to let go - if an idea doesn't work, or it's not perfect, that's O.K.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.

You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan well, focus, work hard, and be very determined to achieve your goals.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

As temples of the Holy Spirit. we should have communion with the Holy Spirit. The work of any believer is not only the work of a human individual, but is actually the work of the Holy Spirit.

When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

I'm the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

If you work hard, nothing is impossible.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, 'Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.' But what you're really doing is not doing your work. You're putting off showing up and being visible because then you're going to be judged, and it might suck.

My work ethic is crazy. I'm a producer, an artist, and a video director.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

Know what it is that drives you - motivates you - and pursue it. Endeavor to work to make it happen.