Work quotes

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.” Terry Pratchett

“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.” Thomas Alva Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Alva Edison

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

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Thomas Alva Edison

“If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” Thomas Alva Edison

“Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.” Heraclitus

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs

“So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'” Steve Jobs

“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.” Steve Jobs

“You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.” Steve Jobs

“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.” Martin Luther King

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.” Kurt Vonnegut

“ Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.” Isaac Asimov

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” Plato

“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” Albert Einstein

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.” Woody Allen

“Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.” Mark Twain

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” Mother Teresa

“Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.” Mother Teresa

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” Mother Teresa

“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” Mother Teresa

“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” Mother Teresa

“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.” Mother Teresa

“Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.” Hippocrates

“My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.” Fidel Castro

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” Bruce Lee

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” Oscar Wilde

“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.” Paulo Coelho

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.” Antonio Gaudi