Maybe My Job Is Not So Bad After All

What isn't tried won't work. - Claude McDonald

Work is the curse of the drinking class. - Oscar Wilde

Luck is when hard work meets opportunity. - David Foster

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J Kaiser

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. - Henry David Thoreau

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways. - Frederick Douglass

Hard work is exhilarating; worrying hard is a killer. - Joe Segal

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. - Pablo Picasso

I do not like work, even when somebody else is doing it. - Mark Twain

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. - Jim Rohn

Work is the easiest activity man has invented to escape boredom. - Unknown

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

Love and work are to people, what water and sunshine are to plants. - Jonathan Haidt

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. - Richard Carlson

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

A diamond is just a piece of coal that handles stress exceptionally well. - Unknown

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

Blessed is he who has found his life's work; let him ask no other blessedness. - Thomas Carlyle

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. - Ann Oakley

When you work the buttons here, see, it develops what ya call the digitalis skills. - Archie Bunker

Work as if you were to live a hundred years.
Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. - Saint Augustine

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' - Lao Tzu

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. - Earl Nightingale

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play and to look up at the stars. - Henry van Dyke

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. - Ogden Nash

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death. - Lincoln Davis

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

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. - Paul Dirac

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. - Romans 8:28

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson

I think Mr. Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I'm around. - Homer Simpson

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else too. - Meryl Streep

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung