Work Quotes - page 8

Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your-you know, I'm 67. (William Rehnquist)
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. View quote
Vernor Vinge
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. View quote
Marianne Williamson
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose? View quote
Don Marquis
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. View quote
Anish Kapoor
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
The least work of learning is done in the classroom. View quote
Thomas Merton
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. (Theodore Roosevelt)
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. View quote
James A. Garfield
God buries his workmen, but carries on his work. View quote
Charles Wesley
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. View quote
Alan Watts
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. View quote
William Howard Taft
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. View quote
Jacques Lipchitz
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. View quote
Helen Keller
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work. (Jonathan Swift)
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. View quote
Boris Pasternak
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. View quote
Michael Jordan
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. View quote
Rumi
The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen. View quote
Gustave Flaubert