Work Quotes - Page 20

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

Even if you have the talent, you still have to push yourself. I don't think dreams magically appear, that's why they're called dreams. But if you do want to make that dream a reality, then you have to push yourself. It takes a lot of hard work, and if you don't have the focus, then it's going to be all the harder. If you have a big dream, it takes all of the above to achieve it: passion, the focus and the effort.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.

But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says?

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.