Quotes about Work
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
— Ernest Hemingway
We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.
— Ernest Hemingway
The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley
— Ernest Hemingway
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
— Ernest Hemingway
Your acceptance, your opportunities, and your finances are all part of a sliding scale that yields increase or decline according to your body of work. What you do. How you act.
— Andy Andrews
My mom always taught me - you know, little boys listen to their moms too much - that whatever you put into something is what you're going to get out of it.
— Jay-Z
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
— John Owen
I've said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.
— Michelle Obama
Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
— Jason Fried
It feels good to be productive.
— Jason Fried
You've got to make sure that every body's putting in the work and you've got to have the discipline to go out there and get the job done.
— Jimmy Johnson
In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service.
— Joseph Wirthlin