Quotes on Work

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

Dreams don't work unless you do

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

Work to learn. Don't work for money.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,_x000D_ _x000D_ And hope without an object cannot live.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.