Work For Quotes

#1. Once I had a boy in here whose name was Liam. One of the first things he told me was that I couldn't make him do anything he didn't want. He wasn't going to do any work for me. He wasn't going to listen to a single thing I said.

Torey L. Hayden

#2. Penalties were established for refusal to work, for leaving a place of employment to seek higher pay, and for the offer of higher pay by employers. Proclaimed when Parliament was not sitting, the ordinance was reissued in 1351 as the Statute of Laborers.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. Surely I am coming quickly" (Revelation 22:20). The more aware we are of His impending return, the more motivated we'll be in our work for Him in these last days.

David Jeremiah

#4. I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

Helen Reddy

#5. My dear friend, the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics? - Breeze

Brandon Sanderson

#6. If you compare statistics on different types of households, you find that the presence of an adult male means more additional work for the woman than the presence of a child under ten, even when the man believes himself to be sharing the housework equally.*

Mary Catherine Bateson

#7. Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

Linus Pauling

#8. A lot of the stuff I've done is inspired by the location. Usually my works are pretty site-specific. There are a lot of shows that are older works, but often when I do new work for a show, it tends to talk to the space or the idea of the museum.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#9. Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

Vera Wang

#10. Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

Al-Ghazali

#11. The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

L. Sprague De Camp

#12. In none of the Gospels does Jesus tell his disciples to extend the kingdom, work for the kingdom, build up the kingdom, or further the kingdom.

John E. Goldingay

#13. Just because something is on trend, it might not work for you.

Victoria Justice

#14. The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

John Irving

#15. One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."

Dahlia Lithwick

#16. Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

Kate Ashfield

#17. The world has no boundaries for someone who savors success and is willing to work for it.

Karen Hawkins

#18. What's with the hair today?" He pokes it for good measure.
"I was tired this morning."
"Uh-huh. I can tell. You look like you brushed it with a fork."
"Worked for Ariel."
"Doesn't work for you.

Erynn Mangum

#19. I really need some answers."
"I know you do." Her hands came down. "I just can't believe you don't know anything."
"Believe it."
"How am I supposed to explain this to you?"
"With words. That'd work for me. Faster than drawing pictures in the sand with a stick.

Veronica Rossi

#20. He works for work's sake. Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.

Jason Clarke

#22. Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#23. At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

Bob Schieffer

#24. Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don't wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.

Zoe Winters

#25. Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.

Tiko Kerr

#26. No, I haven't fucked her. Not that I wouldn't love to. Trust me, if she didn't work for me, I'd hit that harder than Mohammed Ali.

Emma Chase

#27. You don't get what you wish for; you get what you work for.

Daniel Milstein

#28. Work for a cause,
Not for applause.
Live life to express,
Not to impress.

Unknown

#29. A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.

Robert Kiyosaki

#30. It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.

Vicky McClure

#31. The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Leo Tolstoy

#32. Customers don't distinguish between you and the company you work for. To the customer's way of thinking, you are the company.

Ron Zemke

#33. Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

Tom Petty

#34. The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

Michael Gungor

#35. I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

Roberto Matta

#36. The only reason people work for airlines is because the Nazi party is no longer hiring.

Iliza Shlesinger

#37. Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Jeremy Taylor

#38. I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

Emraan Hashmi

#39. If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

Eli Wallach

#40. It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

Cate Blanchett

#41. My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

Taylor Swift

#42. God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him ...

Watchman Nee

#43. I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that's just my day, not my week.

Rachel Caine

#44. The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do.

Tom Bissell

#45. Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.

David Pratt

#46. A voice came out of the darkness.
'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.

Robert Harris

#47. Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.

Sathya Sai Baba

#48. I think really what needs to happen is the people of the United States need to stand up and say, 'Oil is an energy model from the past. It doesn't work for the planet, it doesn't work for the people, it never has and it never will.'

Julia Butterfly Hill

#49. Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#50. When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.

Joe Frazier

#51. In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Bobby Knight

#52. My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

Joan Collins

#53. Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

Warren Buffett

#54. Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

Jenna Fischer

#55. There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

#56. The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#57. I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

Hillary Clinton

#58. Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

Phoebe Cates

#59. Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

Cindy Sherman

#60. I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Number 23,' it was really cool because now I get to be in a movie with Jim Carrey. Acting in this movie was really a learning experience for me.

Paul Butcher

#61. Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play - work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.

Mark Edmundson

#62. If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

Condoleezza Rice

#63. I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.

George Meyer

#64. When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

DeVon Franklin

#65. My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Paula McLain

#66. I planned this whole thing. In fact, guess what? The company you think you work for? It's all a fraud perpetrated by yours truly. I created it, so we could have this intimate moment together. The city of Chicago? It doesn't exist. It's part of my master plan to fuck you, Marley.

M.K. Schiller

#67. No," he said, and he snapped his fingers. "You'll come work for me at K
. And be a real associate editor."
I said, "I could bring you up on charges for that."
"What?"
"Work harassment in the sexual place.

Melissa Bank

#68. In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the union, in this case UAW. There's no choice - it's a union shop - the employees voted to have it that way, and in America, that's the way it is.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#69. true that there is much work for all to do in the times ahead. The work you are going to do will be lighter and easier because you are going to connect with your galactic consciousness. You left part of yourself

David K. Miller

#70. Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.

Aaron Patzer

#71. Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.

Vincent Cassel

#72. I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.

M.C. Escher

#73. I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#74. There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.

Fred Couples

#75. Make your money work for you, don't work for your money.

Habeeb Akande

#76. If you do not work for your dream or purpose, someone else will hire you to fulfill his/hers

Sunday Adelaja

#77. We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

J. D. Hayworth

#78. In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

Roger Staubach

#79. The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.

Gene Robinson

#80. Love your kid as much as you possibly can, and do what you need to do for your family because my situation and what I do for my kid may not work for you.

Drew Lachey

#81. The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

James E. Faust

#82. We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#83. Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#84. You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

Sandra Bernhard

#85. I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#86. Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

Ozwald Boateng

#87. I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.

Rashid Johnson

#88. Look at all the resources around you before you make a decision. Look for ways to make your environment work for you. The solution to your most impossible problem might be right there in front of you. As obvious as a full Moon is on a dark night.

C.D. Sutherland

#89. I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

Keith Haring

#90. Chronicler froze. 'So you're saying I work for you?'
'I'm saying you belong to me.' Bast's face was deadly serious. 'Down to the marrow of your bones.

Patrick Rothfuss

#91. The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles R. Schwab

#92. I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard.

Jack Canfield

#93. Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.

Luis Gonzalez

#94. I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

John Hall

#95. Oh how sweet to work for God all day, and then lie down at night beneath His smile.

Robert M

#96. You won't mind my calling you Comrade, will you? I've just become a socialist. It's a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the equal distribution of property, and start by collaring all you can and sitting on it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#97. I don't work for money any longer. I work for pride.

Tom Ford

#98. The Society isn't human, but the people work for it sometimes are.

Ally Condie

#99. He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Theodor Reik

#100. Is not the poet bound to write his own biography? Is there any other work for him but a good journal? We do not wish to know how his imaginary hero, but how he, the actual hero, lived from day to day.

Henry David Thoreau