Work Quotes

“We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.”

— Kevin Kelly

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Richard Bach

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.”

— Adam Lambert

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”

— Meister Eckhart

“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.”

— Chanakya

“Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.”

— Bill Cosby

“God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.”

— Charles Stanley

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

— Robert Frost

“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”

— Robert Orben

“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”

— Tom Stoppard

“Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.”

— Charles de Gaulle

“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.”

— Harold S. Geneen