quotes about "WORK"

[Darren Dirt]

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/work/



Some good ones -- some "deep", some ironic, and some a bit of both...

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)



One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5



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

David McCullough (1933 - )



When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)



Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)



Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal



Work while you have the light, you are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel



Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)



When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)



People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton



In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850



Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)



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

Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)



Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker



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

Richard Bach



Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)



Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

[Mr. Analog]

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

Gaah! This brings to mind the eternal battle of Cram it! vs. Zest!





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