Work Quotes About Effort & Professional Life – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglass

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Edwin Louis Cole

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

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Gustave Flaubert

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

Harri Holkeri

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

John F. Kennedy

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

Ann Coulter

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Peter Drucker

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Milton Friedman

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Jean de la Bruyere

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Peter Drucker

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Adlai E. Stevenson

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Edvard Munch

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Sam Mendes

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

Tobias Wolff

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

Princess Diana

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Benjamin Franklin

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Christopher Dodd

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas A. Edison

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

John Engler

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Lyndon B. Johnson

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Norman Jewison

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

Harold Pinter

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

Sargent Shriver

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Walter Bagehot

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

Jeffery Deaver

As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.

John Hutton

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.

Michael K. Simpson