Top 100 Work To Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.
Al Gore
#3. It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
Ann Patchett
#4. You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.
Casey Stoney
#5. I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.
Henry Rollins
#6. Each petal in the universe whispers in our ears that an unknown power is at work. If we align ourselves with this divine energy, offer our work to Him and move on in life, we will never have any worries and anxieties in our life.
Sanchita Pandey
#7. The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.
Jerry Only
#8. I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.
Dean Mitchell
#9. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
#10. China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.
Juan Enriquez
#11. Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
Paulina Porizkova
#12. Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.
Lee Kuan Yew
#13. Work to connect yourself to the allness of life
instead of identifying with the smallness of it
and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.
Guy Finley
#14. Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize you've made too much of it, to remember it doesn't define you.
Rachel Held Evans
#15. He dedicated the work to me: 'This is for my daughter Megyn, who read this and said, 'This is good, Dad.' (He got the grant.) I felt respected.
Megyn Kelly
#16. When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.
Margaret Chan
#17. You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
Anton Chekhov
#18. There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.
Marco Rubio
#19. My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.
T.D. Jakes
#20. 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
#21. Let's all work to get people to drink more good beer, so if someone walks into your office and says he drinks Corona, don't immediately call him a dickhead.
Michael Jackson
#22. It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.
M.B. Dallocchio
#23. Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.
Brene Brown
#24. Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.
Matt LeBlanc
#25. A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.
Dan B. Allender
#26. 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
#27. You okay, there, Mr. Rat Man?" Minho asked. "My name is Assistant Director Janson," he replied, his voice low and strained, as if it was hard work to stay calm. His eyes never left Thomas. "Learn to show respect for your elders.
James Dashner
#28. What are our options? If I have the choice of being doubtful or being hopeful, I'm going to choose hopeful. It takes less work to be positive.
Chris Colfer
#29. And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.
Karen Kingsbury
#30. Being a little naive can work to your advantage.
Gia Coppola
#31. The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved
Charles Spurgeon
#32. One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...
Ellen Glasgow
#33. 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
#34. Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!
Zig Ziglar
#35. The point of working isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
David Baraka
#36. Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have ... what work did she ever have to do in her life?
Drake Bell
#37. When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.
Michele Bachmann
#38. I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them.
Michael Jackson
#39. I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions ... It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.
Eva Hesse
#40. Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.
Christo
#41. Little late for that now. I don't think an 'Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds' will work to get me out of this. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#43. The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral universe where people who do not work to create profit are considered less than human, and used as surplus labour to drive down the cost of wages.
Laurie Penny
#44. It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.
Robert Anthony
#45. We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
Ted Cruz
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Elder Spencer W. Kimball once said, "I rely upon that promise of the Lord that he will strengthen and empower me that I may be able to do this work to which I have been called" (in Conference Report, October 1943, 18).
Thomas R. Valletta
#49. Duty to his wife. Duty to his children. Duty to work, to committees, to charities. Duty to Lynette. Duty to the other women. It was exhausting. It demanded stamina. At times he amazed even himself.
Richard Flanagan
#50. Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
Candace Parker
#51. Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
#52. It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.
Elia Suleiman
#53. I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.
Tim O'Reilly
#54. I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#55. As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.
Jack Nicholson
#56. It is not wrong to want to work and earn a decent living; in fact, God has given work to us. But this legitimate desire can very easily cross the line into greed - especially in our materialistic society.
Billy Graham
#57. I think the most reliable way to teach it is through reading work aloud over and over. Many prose writers been encouraged to do that, but that might be changing. Denise was the one who taught me to develop my ear. I never knew how to listen to writing until she started reading her work to me.
Paul Lisicky
#58. What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man ... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.
Vincent Van Gogh
#59. I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.
Chris Christie
#60. It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.
John Walters
#61. Back in the 1980s, the 'News of the World' had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana's volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.
Nick Davies
#63. 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
#64. That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.
Rajneesh
#65. You are self employed. You work to pay your bills, build your dreams and create your life, regardless of who signs your paycheck.
Rob Liano
#66. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.
Cal Newport
#67. In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
Paul Cullen
#68. 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
#69. I'm uncommonly slow to show my work to other people, and by the time I do I've usually exhausted myself so completely that all I really want is for someone to tell me that my efforts have added up to something - not one of my better qualities, I admit.
Kevin Brockmeier
#70. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush
#71. The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.
Emily Oster
#73. Always work to cause your horse to follow the path of least resistance. Then place an opening for him to pass through so that the path of least resistance becomes the direction you want him to go in.
Monty Roberts
#74. Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
Salman Rushdie
#75. My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do,
Helen Keller
#76. To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
#77. If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash
#78. I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.
Darren Boyd
#79. My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
Aaron Sorkin
#80. I look forward to working alongside Univision's exceptional team as we work to further realize the substantial growth potential of this dynamic organization.
Randy Falco
#81. Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.
Steven Johnson
#82. Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.
Mark Cuban
#83. I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.
John Wall
#84. We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who work to save the earth are its antibodies.
Jeremy Rifkin
#85. If Mercy Underhill were any more perfect, it would take a long day's work to fall in love with her. But she has exactly enough faults to make it ridiculously easy.
Lyndsay Faye
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Life is effortful," said Mac. "That's the way it's supposed to be. It's good to have work to do.
Ramona Ausubel
#89. Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#90. It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
Thomas Watson
#91. It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.
Arnaud Desplechin
#92. Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
Edith Stein
#93. A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.
Charles Caleb Colton
#94. I found myself thinking about what worked for me, and also what I wanted to do for work, what was important to me, and what I wanted my work to say about me.
Dick Van Dyke
#95. Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
Natasha Trethewey
#96. Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.
Tim Bishop
#97. We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.
Jon Porter
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. There's no good in moping girl, there's work to be done... Have you forgotten, nobody likes a person who feels sorry for herself.
Ruth Downie
