Top 100 Work To Do Quotes
#1. I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.
Bryce Wilson
#2. What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.
Reynolds Price
#3. I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in the world.
W. Somerset Maugham
#4. If you do not know your purpose, you have detective work to do. The clues will be in your life to date, in the things you are good at, the things you enjoy doing, in your dreams and your daydreams.
Bill Harvey
#5. How's the book coming?" Stay and talk to me. That's what I meant.
"It's coming. Still got a lot of work to do." He couldn't. That's what he meant.
Kami Garcia
#6. Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.
David Allen
#7. Life is effortful," said Mac. "That's the way it's supposed to be. It's good to have work to do.
Ramona Ausubel
#8. Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.
Tiger Woods
#9. I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do - a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#10. Yeah i saw An Inconvenient Truth, and i dont want to say it was preachy but let's not kid ourselves, i've got far more important work to do
Zach Braff
#11. Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
Isabelle Adjani
#12. Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.
Hilary Mantel
#13. We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
Mara Brock Akil
#14. O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do ...
Martin Luther
#15. I contemplate the bones for a while then turn away. I have work to do. Next year I will have an odako that is bigger, grander, more beautiful than anyone has ever seen. Next year.
Stan Sakai
#16. In the past year I've gotten used to being cut down to size whenever I start acting too high and mighty. If you didn't keep me in line,I'd be damn well unmanageable. As it is, you're going to have a lot of work to do once they leave.
Lisa Kleypas
#17. A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
Daniel Goleman
#18. Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
Caroline Kennedy
#19. There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.
Yingluck Shinawatra
#20. Good. Now I've got work to do," I said, pulling away. "Some of us have jobs, you know."
He grinned, "Yeah. Suckers.
Alicia Kobishop
#21. God had saved him from the fish cellar and that could only mean one thing. He had more work to do. (John Frith, p.64)
Brenda Rickman Vantrease
#22. I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.
John Wall
#23. My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do,
Helen Keller
#24. Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#25. There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
Sylvester McCoy
#27. She was pleased her demure stature was finally good for something. It was an advantage at last. A boon. An asset. A virtue - She stopped herself from continuing her synonym spiral. There was work to do.
Cynthia Hand
#28. I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.
Prince
#29. I hope I make films where you walk away ... with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.
Mike Leigh
#30. Out, beefy. The women folk have work to do."
Bish laughed and pointed to himself. "I'm beefy, I suppose."
"Well, no one else in this room has his arms stuffed into his sleeves like sausage casings, now do they?
Shelly Crane
#31. The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
Henry Ford
#32. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
#33. There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
Ibrahim Babangida
#34. Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.
Edward Bach
#35. I was actually shooting 'Warm Bodies' on the day that '50/50' came out, which I don't recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn't obsess all day and be checking how '50/50' was doing!
Jonathan Levine
#36. My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
Charles Studd
#37. I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.
Faith Hill
#38. A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.
Roald Amundsen
#39. It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.
Martha Ostenso
#40. Every day he stood in front of the Bank of America. You're trapped in the belly of a big pink pig, he said. We ignored him. We had work to do.
Brian Andreas
#41. Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists.
Evan Davis
#42. I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.
Madonna Ciccone
#43. Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion ... If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.
John Taylor
#44. I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
Martin Luther
#45. When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
Christine Gregoire
#46. It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.
Martin O'Malley
#48. Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
Eric Allman
#49. my worst held-back secrets: everything has to do with loving and not loving. This night will pass. Then we have work to do.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#51. Enough. I don't have time for this; self-pity's a luxury that I can't afford.
Like bread. Or pride.
Enough, Errin. There's work to do. Get up.
Melinda Salisbury
#52. To succeed you must do the work. To do the work takes character. To keep doing it takes mental toughness.
William James Moore
#53. When you have growth and development, you have more work to do in the fire business. Thats going to be the reality in the future.
Jim Sinclair
#54. Oh, the Bloodwitch named Aeduan was no longer bored. No longer bored at all. And now he had work to do.
Susan Dennard
#55. This life is not about our comfort. We have an eternity for that. I really think this is about training and testing. We will have work to do in Heaven, work that is fulfilling and perfect for us. God needs to develop certain skill sets in us before that time. That may be what this life is about.
Terri Blackstock
#56. We're probably going to see some post-2014 military presence - some U.S. presence and a NATO presence - and while we've got much work to do in the next 29 months, we'll have additional time later for the continued professionalization of the Afghan security forces.
John R. Allen
#57. You couldn't begin to imagine who I am, where I'm going, or what I'm about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can't go anywhere, forward or back. But I'm not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.
Haruki Murakami
#58. So you had to piss me off badly enough activate some primal instinct?" I clenched my jaw, grinding my teeth. "I think all you managed to 'draw out' was fuming rage. I could rip your head off right now."
"Save that for later," he waved his hand dismissively. "You have work to do right now.
M.A. George
#59. It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
Jerome Lawrence
#60. Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers.
Pauline Marois
#61. Now that he had his way, and all went well, and he had work to do after his heart, and had honour in it, he was courteous to all, and less grim than of old, so that well nigh all hearts were turned to him; and many called him Adanedhel, the Elf-man.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.
Joe Biden
#64. At a time when we have much work to do to address our Nation's critical infrastructure, and, as I said, which is currently in dire need of upgrade and repair, this legislation is also a jobs bill and is obviously a jobs creator.
Howard Coble
#65. I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.
Kris Holden-Ried
#66. Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.
Edward Carpenter
#67. The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.
Hugh MacLennan
#68. I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do ... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
Karl Malone
#69. Revolution is the sound of your heart still beating. and as long as it is, you have work to do. Do it. Without apology. Do it. Bravely and nobly. Do it. Exist, insist, and by all means, resist.
Dominique Christina
#70. Mr. Tiny nodded, then started forward. Enough of the chitchat, boys. I have work to do and I must be quick. Time is precious. A volcano's due to erupt on a small tropical island tomorrow. Everybody within a ten-mile radius will be roasted alive. I want to be there
it sounds like great fun.
Darren Shan
#71. It is a virtue, I came to believe long ago, not to make a meal out of one's emotional life. There's always enough work to do, not to mention that there's world enough outside.
Joseph Brodsky
#72. Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
Barack Obama
#73. I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.
David Brooks
#74. Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do ...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#75. Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to understand who did what to whom, why and when - and who did it first.
Henry Grunwald
#76. What would it look like for you to approach tomorrow with a sense of honor and privilege, believing that you have work to do in the world, that it matters, that it's needed, that you have a path and you're working your craft?
Rob Bell
#78. The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world.
Dada Bhagwan
#79. It takes a lot of work to do this every day, every day, but I feel, as a sheriff, I should get to know my people. I serve them. They don't serve me. I serve them. They're my bosses, and the more people I can see and talk to, I love it.
Joe Arpaio
#80. Where's your dad?"
"Gone. Where does he go, anyway?"
"He probably has work to do."
"Yeah, gotta go burn a bush for Moses.
Cynthia Hand
#81. I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I'm in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children
Ewan McGregor
#82. The dead have their reward, Vosch says. It is the living - you and I - who still have work to do
Rick Yancey
#83. Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
Toni Cade Bambara
#84. We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.
John McCain
#85. It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.
Sandy Alderson
#86. You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.
Ovid
#87. The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
Ezra Taft Benson
#88. I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
Allen Ginsberg
#89. He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
Sallust
#90. We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.
Beyonce Knowles
#91. I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
Agnes Varda
#92. You are not painting her into one of those goon suits. She is royalty. Dress her like royalty. Give her some glitter . . . some glitz. And a crown." "Go back to your room, Morpheus." Jeb takes the paintbrush. "The grown-ups have work to do.
A.G. Howard
#93. There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
Rosa Parks
#94. If I'm going out with him tomorrow, I have work to do. By work, I mean some beaverscaping.
Helena Hunting
#95. Article XXVIII: Every newborn shall be sincerely welcomed and cared for until maturity. Article XXIX: Every adult who needs it shall be given meaningful work to do, at a living wage.
Kurt Vonnegut
#96. We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.
Barack Obama
#97. The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.
Bobby Jindal
#98. 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
#99. We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.
Michael Bennet
#100. We have a lot of work to do in New Jersey, but I am darn proud we've brought our state back.
Chris Christie
