Top 100 Work Philosophy Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Work Philosophy

#1. There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.

Tom Hodgkinson

#2. Education is not a thing apart from life - not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

Booker T. Washington

#3. My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

Dana Fox

#4. A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#5. The tin-sheep and wooden-melon proletariat produced their papers and named their places of work. The madman with the white beard plucked at the sleeve of the policemen, opened up his folded handkerchief, and said: professor of philosophy.

Herta Muller

#6. MIND & GRIND
Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers

Kamil Ali

#7. I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?' ... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

A. Balasubramaniam

#8. All work is an act of philosophy. And when men will learn to consider productive work - and that which is its source - as the standard of their moral values, they will reach that state of perfection which is the birthright they lost..

Ayn Rand

#9. The Ice Cream Cone Charm

You Will Never Work A Day Once You Discover A Passion That Makes Your Life Rich & Sweet

Viola Shipman

#10. Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.

Brian Greene

#11. The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves ... The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Harold Bloom

#12. Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

L. Neil Smith

#13. I wish to be a product not a consumer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

Alex Pareene

#15. People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and] I have decided to continue his work with the same fierce energy and the same intransigence.

Jean-Claude Duvalier

#16. How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.

Gillian Duce

#17. The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#18. For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus of those who work in the sciences. At the same time, I don't have a view of philosophy which marks it out as different in kind from scientific work

Hilary Kornblith

#19. Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Herbert Marcuse

#20. True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Willard F. Libby

#21. The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man.

Erich Fromm

#22. Doing what you love is a sacred life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. I only need to survive on tea, bread and fruits. I can keep working.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Karl Jaspers

#25. Wealth is not often a byproduct of hard work or superior intelligence, but often wealth is a byproduct of a purpose oriented abundant mentality.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

Colin Beavan

#27. I've always had philosophy, which has been really helpful for me, getting into the business. I didn't have any connections. I didn't know anyone. It was just about my work.

Daniel Radcliffe

#28. This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.

Mark Lilla

#29. The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!

Rex L. Forehand

#30. It feels great to do what you love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

Alain Badiou

#32. The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

George Carlin

#33. Don't find work, find an interest and do it with love. If you can earn a living doing something interesting, then you will never have to work.

Debasish Mridha

#34. The philosophy I shared ... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

Frank Lowy

#35. Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[ ... ] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?

Daniel Quinn

#36. The Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books, a list that came to include almost every significant work of post-medieval Western philosophy.

David Hume

#37. If you work all day, when can you connect with your soul?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. Hurting someone will not impress them. Intelligence requires empathy to work. Water is wet. The sky is pink through these rose-tinted glasses.

F.K. Preston

#39. Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't expect that only the best people will be promoted.

Eraldo Banovac

#40. Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

Frederick Lenz

#41. I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

P.D. James

#42. May we recognise the uniqueness of every individual and seek to complement each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#44. A vacation is three times more work without the payment.

Debasish Mridha

#45. All work is an act of philosophy.

Ayn Rand

#46. I try to balance work and play. I'm really grateful that I can kind of have that philosophy, so I can try to get out of the city as much as possible, even though I love the city and I'm not ready to leave it.

Jorja Fox

#47. There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering ... workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.

Bill Gates

#48. Here's what I think ... There is no unfucked up. People think there is, but there's not. We're all fucked up in different ways. It's simply a question of making your fuck-ups work for you.-Aidan

Gemma Burgess

#49. Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.

Ken Burns

#50. One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

Stephen Hawking

#51. All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.

William James

#52. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Jose Marti

#53. Jan Dhan Yojana is at the core of our philosophy of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' & we will work towards its success.

Narendra Modi

#54. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

Bob Black

#55. I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.

Philip Kitcher

#56. Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state of accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order.

Kevin Hooyman

#57. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#58. Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#59. A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#60. First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.

Abhijit Naskar

#61. Physical activity promotes high productivity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.

Kenny Troutt

#63. If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.

Steven D. Levitt

#64. Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

Khalil Gibran

#65. Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way of resisting the nihilism of the present by making, creating, affirming. By going on.

Simon Critchley

#66. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this - and by 'new at it,' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 - you're just starting to get traction ... Give it a minute.

Louis C.K.

#67. When you love your work then it isn't work, it's your love affair.

Debasish Mridha

#68. The great souls work with great passion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#69. Primitive people alienate themselves in their mana, their totem; civilized people in their individual souls, their egos, their names, their possessions, and their work: here is the first temptation of inauthenticity.

Simone De Beauvoir

#70. I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

Lara Pulver

#71. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.

Byrd Baggett

#72. Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

George Carlin

#73. Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Aristotle.

#74. My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

Julian Jarrold

#75. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

Jamie Smith

#76. Chase your dreams even with the last breath.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#77. Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

Charles Kettering

#78. I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

Al Pacino

#79. All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote ... While the backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy.

Donald Tsang

#80. Human mortality linked to the human ability consciously to choose how to act by exhibiting free will, humility, hard work, kindness, and compassion provide exemplary opportunities to learn and develop self-discipline.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#81. When you want to know how God wants you to reach your city, start a new church, or be involved in His work, ask Him. Then when He tells you, don't be surprised if you can't find any church that is doing it the same way.

Henry T. Blackaby

#82. There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.

David Novak

#83. Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Frank Plumpton Ramsey

#84. Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective.

Debasish Mridha

#85. During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#86. Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an
intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

Joseph Conrad

#87. You will surely succeed in life with great passion and desire for self-study.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#88. I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.

Win Butler

#89. She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

John Le Carre

#90. Dance as if life is a work of art.
Dance as if life is a stage for a dance drama.

Debasish Mridha

#91. The sun doesn't live in England; it comes here on holiday when we're all at work.

Benny Bellamacina

#92. Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.

Peter J. Leithart

#93. A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn't work ... she thought and thought then said "the Politician is going to get you" and he was never naughty again

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#94. Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#95. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

Ernest Hemingway,