Quotes on Work

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.