Work Quotes

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The object of living is work, experience, happiness

Henry Ford

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Felix Frankfurter

Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning

Igor Stravinsky

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Flaubert

Give me love and work - these two only

William Morris

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt

Max Beerbohm

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Louise Bogan

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation

Walter Bagehot

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Garson Kanin

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Sidney Lumet

Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

Boris Pasternak

Men want recognition of their work, to help them to believe in themselves

Dorothy Miller Richardson

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

Bob Black

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

Michael Jackson

Honestly, Im just consumed by the work. Everyday, Im trying to come up with new stuff and do new things.

Wiz Khalifa

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

Charlton

I have retired to Nemours to work upon a novel called The Age for Love, and it is on this subject that I wished to consult you, my dear master.

Paul Charles Joseph Bourget

Kazan is a performer's director, the best director I ever worked with... Most actors don't get any help from directors. Emotional help, if you're playing an emotional part. Kazan is the only one I know who really gives you help.

Marlon Brando

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