work quotes

“In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”

— Stephen Hawking

“My work and my family are very important to me. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ”

“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. ”

— Coco Chanel

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! ”

— Coco Chanel

“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. ”

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! ”

“The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.”

“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”

“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. ”

“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.”

“Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. ”

— Aldous Huxley

“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Evil gains work their punishment.”

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”

— Victor Hugo

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