Work quotes

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” Vincent Van Gogh

“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.” Vincent Van Gogh

“I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.” Albert Schweitzer

“If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” Donald Trump

“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Andy Warhol

“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Andy Warhol

“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.” Andy Warhol

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.” Andy Warhol

“What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.” Oprah Winfrey

“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.” Virginia Woolf

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

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” Walt Whitman

“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” Alan Watts

“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.” Adele

“I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.” Adele

“If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.” Adele

“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.” Lance Armstrong

“The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.” Ansel Adams

“These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.” Ansel Adams

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

“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.” Lucille Ball

“Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.” Lucille Ball

“Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.” Lucille Ball

“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.” Lucille Ball

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” Edmund Burke

“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.” Richard Bach

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” Richard Bach

“Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.” Les Brown