Work Quotes About Effort & Professional Life – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Marshall McLuhan

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Friedrich Schiller

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

Marilyn vos Savant

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Richard M. Nixon

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Gustave Flaubert

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Saint Augustine

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.

Marilyn vos Savant

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Leon Kass

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Bertrand Russell

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

William Feather

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Harry S. Truman

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Christopher Lasch

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Don DeLillo

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

John F. Kennedy

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Margaret Thatcher

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Irwin Shaw

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Orison Swett Marden

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

James Cash Penney

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Jimmy Carter

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Jeanette Winterson

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Theodore Roosevelt

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Marcus Aurelius

You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt