Work Quotes

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.