Quotes on Work

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

God never made his work for man to mend.

We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.

It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

I used to feel that I had to be dictatorial in order to be respected, but after I did a couple of TV movies, I began to see that authority came with the job. So I began to relax and let more people into the process, and my work really improved.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.