Work Quotes - Page 4

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

When you've earned something, I mean really earned it, no one can make you doubt that you deserve it. They can't say it isn't yours. There's something about getting a thing that you've bled and fought for that makes the getting that much sweeter.

We have to work ten times harder to get things that seem to be handed to other people. But that's okay because I think it gives us a secret strength that the people who coast through life will never know.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

I don't speak very well, I work very well.

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.

The light needs only our trust
And, of course, the darkness
To work its eternal alchemy.

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.