Work Quotes

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.

Well, we can't stand around here doing nothing, people will think we're workmen.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American Way.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.

Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you’re never going to be number 1 in the world. At least not at this. So it’s easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre. What a waste.

The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.

'Proper work' usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.

Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

You can have the project:

Done On Time
Done On Budget
Done Properly
Pick two.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen

We work to stop thinking about sex and worrying about death.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

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

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.