Top 100 Work You Quotes
#1. You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
Ira Glass
#2. Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work ... You had better enjoy it.
Richard Branson
#4. If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.
Alexandra Adornetto
#5. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.
Graham Swift
#6. You have to love your work. You have to save money instead of spending all of it. Look for areas you can compete in. Work damn hard. Most importantly, you have to love it.
John Gokongwei
#7. The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don't commit to being happy at work, you won't be. You won't make the choices that make you happy. You won't take the actions needed to get there. You won't change the things that need to change.
Alexander Kjerulf
#8. The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have ... ," I wouldn't be here today.
Debbi Fields
#9. Cut the crap! I don't care how many hours you work, I care how much work you do in those hours.
Pulkit Patel
#10. The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.
Frances Hesselbein
#11. The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can't stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.
James Badge Dale
#13. You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
Johnny Depp
#14. I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
Omar Sharif
#15. The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.
Cameron Russell
#16. During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.
Martin Henderson
#17. I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.
Gena Showalter
#18. There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.
Martha Beck
#19. In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
Maira Kalman
#20. Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#21. I hate when somebody says, "This may not work." You'll never get anywhere with that. I've pushed a lot of people out of my way - I don't mean physically - over them being afraid something isn't going to work.
Gordon Willis
#22. The work you love doing overlaps with that of a Hobby (routine work done in leisure time). The essence is in untiring consummation of hard Core Work in the guise of a Hobby
Priyavrat Thareja
#23. Oh, Neverfell, you're just not made for undercover work. You can't lie, my dear, and I can. Leave Madame Appeline and the Doldrums to me. Stay here and keep your head down.
Frances Hardinge
#24. As you explore your own calling, you will be surprised by how your previous experiences are conspiring to lead you in the direction of your life's work. You just have to listen.
Jeff Goins
#25. Wasn't it immoral to do work you didn't enjoy? The work needed doing but a lot of people didn't care what they were posted to and changed jobs all the time; they should have volunteered. Any fool could do this work.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#26. As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and the work. You seldom achieve all the elements of the ideal, but it travels with you as the criterion and standard of what true belonging could be.
John O'Donohue
#27. When you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.
John Bennett Ramsey
#28. When in doubt, write it out. If that doesn't work, you're screwed.
Moniqua Sexton
#29. If you can own property, how are you a slave?" asked Rigg. "Because your owner can move you to one place or another, can break up your marriage, can sell your children to some other owner, can decide how much education you'll receive, and what work you'll do, and what hours you'll keep.
Orson Scott Card
#30. Any kind of advice that I've been given to cut out carbs forever, don't do it. It just doesn't work. You do okay for a while and then you just overcarb.
Erica Durance
#31. it mattered less what your origins were, and more what work you were willing to do; how hard you'd fight for the men around you.
Alexandra Bracken
#32. That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.
Henry Cloud
#33. Think about the work you already do. Is it meaningful & challenging? Are you appreciated & recognized for what you're doing?
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#34. Compassion is the key no matter what the line of work you are in.
Jack Canfield
#35. I've worked hard, very hard, to get where I am. And you will have to work hard too. But when you do the work, you will see the results.
Katie Alender
#36. Now you kneel before us. You bare your throats. You spread your legs. You work, you serve, you fuck, and you submit. You obey, or you die.
R. Phoenix
#38. You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.
Donna Mills
#39. On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.
Bojana Novakovic
#40. This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.
Eddie Redmayne
#41. From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done ... but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.
Theodore Roosevelt
#43. Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.
Irving Penn
#44. Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre
#46. Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late!
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.
Haruki Murakami
#48. Do the best work you can do and try not to worry about the fact that you are a woman covering the NFL and you have never played the sport before. Just focus on the story and study, prepare and deliver the best report possible.
Megan Alexander
#49. If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.
Seth Godin
#50. When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.
Aphex Twin
#51. Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
Jack Canfield
#52. Worked like a Trojan. That's one thing I'll say for the Chinese: when it comes to pure old-fashioned work, you can't fault them.
Eleanor Catton
#53. You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
Mother Teresa
#54. Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
Linda Lavin
#55. As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.
Tommy Lee Jones
#56. I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.
Rulon Gardner
#57. The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.
Horace
#58. And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.
Jason Reitman
#59. Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.
Bob Dylan
#60. The truth is, if you're lucky enough to work, you're a lucky actor.
Lindsay Price
#61. I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.
Adriana Trigiani
#62. The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.
Sandro Veronesi
#63. The secret of a happy life is to do work you enjoy and then you'll be too busy to know whether you're happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
#64. If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.
Malalai Joya
#65. The people in your life should always be more important than the work you do.
C.S. Woolley
#66. If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
Philip Sidney
#67. It can be also known as the Parkinson's law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." It means that if you give yourself 2 hours to do a work, it is likely that you will spend 2 hours. If you give yourself 3 hours for the same work, you will surely spend 3 hours.
Remy Roulier
#68. God has foreordained the works to which He has called you. He has been ahead of you preparing the place to which you are coming and manipulating all the resources of the universe in order that the work you do may be a part of His whole great and gracious work.
G. Campbell Morgan
#69. A large part of choosing your path is figuring out which values will determine your worth. Once that's clear, it's much easier to decide if the work you're doing will increase or decrease your feelings of worth.
Paul Jarvis
#70. The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?
Carew Papritz
#71. Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
Patrick DeWitt
#72. Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.
Benicio Del Toro
#73. Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn't work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies.
Margaret Aranda
#74. I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.
J.J. Abrams
#75. The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home.
Harold B. Lee
#76. I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.
Olivia Newton-John
#77. Whatever I'm throwing out there in my work, you either catch that detail because you're ready to catch it, but if you're not, that's OK - you're still being entertained.
Isaiah Washington
#78. Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.
Harry Browne
#79. I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#80. You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
Manny Montana
#81. I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.
Tessa Thompson
#82. You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.
Bob Newhart
#83. That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
Pete Du Pont
#84. You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
Lars Von Trier
#85. Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.
Robert I. Sutton
#86. Bridget scoffed. "And you can lay odds that a man who's driven in his life's pursuits - whatever they are - will be equally driven when it comes to you." Stilling suddenly, she looked up from her work. "You can lose yourself to a man like that.
Vicki Pettersson
#87. For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.
Steve Erickson
#88. I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'
Scott Aukerman
#89. Do the work you love. And love yourself.
Felicia Day
#90. Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.
Dionne Warwick
#91. Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#92. We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.
D.H. Lawrence
#93. I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
Charlie Day
#94. Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.
Ayn Rand
#95. You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.
Salman Rushdie
#96. An effective breakout block is at least three-hours long and spent on things other than work. It is time scheduled away from your business during normal business hours that you will use to refresh and reinvigorate your mind, so that when you return to work, you can engage with more focus and energy.
Brian P. Moran
#97. Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.
David Pratt
#98. When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.
Tony Robbins
#99. I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#100. If you women continue to demand your choice to work, you will so upset the economy of this country that the time will come when you will not have a choice. You will have to work.
Helen B. Andelin
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