Top 100 No Work Quotes
#1. I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
#2. The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here. I mean, no schools, no work, no clue if they'd even have a future. They just went nuts!
Neal Shusterman
#3. No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,
the most unwholesome of food.
Charles Lamb
#4. There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God.
William Tyndale
#6. Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#7. No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#8. People always seemed to be striving towards doing less work. She wonders how they feel when they actually get there, and what they do with their days instead. People get it wrong - it's not no work that makes for the best kind of life, but the right work.
Fiona Robyn
#9. Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero."
"Not yet," I said.
Richelle Mead
#10. Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.
Zicheng Hong
#11. There are some things that require no work, and healing is one of them.
Deepak Chopra
#12. I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.
Scott Adams
#13. I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.
Ezra Miller
#14. Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church.
Pope Francis
#15. I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#16. No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
Seneca The Younger
#17. We are going to continue having these meetings, everyday, until I find out why no work is getting done.
Richard Moran
#18. Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Harvey MacKay
#19. There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.
Michael Hyatt
#20. There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.
George Eliot
#21. A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent
Irwin Schiff
#22. It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.
Aldus Manutius
#23. I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard. I always am certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough. But it was a very great thing to have my wife even more confident than I was. She has always been that way.
Henry Ford
#24. A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.
Roald Amundsen
#25. And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the other is spent with no work in sight.
Michelle Williams
#26. No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Oscar Wilde
#27. All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.
William Randolph Hearst
#28. I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
Ralph Fiennes
#29. We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
Peter Block
#31. In sleep, you dream, in drink you curse, and in travel you yell at a porter. No, work and love are the two. When you're not at work you should be in love.' 'Be
D.H. Lawrence
#32. Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither you go.
Ray Looker
#33. No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
Paul Valery
#34. No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this sense ... The Christian's life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.
Francis Schaeffer
#35. No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.
Jaggi Vasudev
#36. It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us.
Max Weber
#37. Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.
Francis Wayland Parker
#38. I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
Iain M. Banks
#39. When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.
Scott Wolf
#40. I guess if everything went tits up, having no work whatsoever, obviously you have to do something else. At the moment I don't see myself quitting, but I'm open minded about it.
Max Irons
#41. Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said.
"No work would be possible without coffee."
They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.
Henning Mankell
#42. No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.
Thomas Boston
#43. Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
A.A. Milne
#44. There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
Clive Bell
#45. Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.
Thomas Carlyle
#46. Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
Ernest Hemingway,
#47. It's not like there's no work in Scotland, but speak to any actor, and they'll tell you it's limited. So you have to go to London or Manchester to broaden your horizons.
Greg McHugh
#48. No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.
Carol Bly
#49. If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you.
John Patrick Hickey
#51. Where there is no work, there is no dignity.
Pope Francis
#52. Now losers have this advantage, that though their own folk disapprove of them they are generally popular with everyone else. Having no work to chain them, they became public property. Just
Rabindranath Tagore
#53. A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
Randeep Hooda
#54. I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
Dick Wolf
#55. I never imagined being undead would be so much work," Jeff lamented.
"Being a 'vampire' takes no work at all," Timothy emphasized vampire. "It's surviving that takes all the work.
Ben Tousey
#56. As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#57. There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
Richard Foreman
#58. There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
James Russell Lowell
#59. Volunteering also honours the sort of work your spouse is obliged to do if you choose cheerfully to do it for him or her. It abolished distinctions and degrees of value. All work is valuable in the house where no work is held in contempt, and where love is not kept in hiding.
Walter Wangerin Jr.
#60. There's no work involved in fucking you, angel." His slow smile was pure satiated male. "I'm grateful for the privilege.
Sylvia Day
#61. I had never found people quick to pay the amounts they had undertaken to subscribe, and the Natal Indians were no exception to the rule. As, therefore, no work was done unless there were funds on hand, the Natal Indian Congress has never been in debt.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world.
Carl Becker
#63. Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.
Bill Shankly
#64. Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.
Andy Couturier
#65. The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money - this results in extremism.
Stef Wertheimer
#66. The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.
Charles Spurgeon
#67. Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Marshall McLuhan
#68. Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
Le Corbusier
#69. Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.
Rutger Hauer
#70. There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
Andre Gide
#72. A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
Octavio Paz
#73. The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
Thomas Carlyle
#74. There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.
Janice Marturano
#75. No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#76. that is just why a vague religion - all about feeling God in nature, and so on - is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work:
C.S. Lewis
#77. In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
Frederick William Robertson
#78. There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
John Calvin
#79. Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.
John Green
#80. Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
Craig Bruce
#82. "Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
Marshall McLuhan
#83. My friend, there is a Hell. It's when a man has a family to support, has his health and is ready to work, and there is no work to do. When he stands with empty hands and sees his children going hungry, his wife without the things to do with. I hope you never have to try it.
Louis L'Amour
#84. Homesick? For a village in the middle of nowhere? Where there's no work and everyone
Susanne O'Leary
#86. Lymond surveyed the grinning audience with an air of gentle discovery. Is there no work to be done? Or perhaps it's a holiday?
Dorothy Dunnett
#87. No work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.
Uta Hagen
#88. But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
Gerald Finzi
#89. You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play
Louisa May Alcott
#90. Being outraged about two men or two women, it requires absolutely no work on the ground. So you can be outraged and you can be an armchair activist, engage in nothing and just simply get on the microphone and say, "I don't believe in X, Y, and Z, and it's terrible," and you can call them names.
Otis Moss III
#91. I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
Kangana Ranaut
#92. The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. He loved also to think, "I did it!" And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.
George Eliot
#94. The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.
Dallas Willard
#95. So often we look for a magic secret or new technique that will produce tremendous returns and results with little or no work. Those seeking this magic secret will never find it - for the secret to success is to continually live and apply basic, simple fundamentals over a long period of time.
Cameron C. Taylor
#96. One day, I'll take a holiday and manage to do no work on it at all and just enjoy being away - however that won't be for some time.
C.S. Woolley
#97. It'll be a day in which you tell us how to make Pixar better," John said. "We'll do no work that day. No visitors will be allowed. Everyone must attend.
Ed Catmull
#98. No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
Robert Henri
#99. In Christ, we are carried directly to heaven, no work necessary on our part.
Tullian Tchividjian
#100. I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'
Marlon Wayans
