Work Quotes

When you start with a dream and work with passion, success is inevitable.

Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value and importance to your fellow men.

I know of no single formula for success, but over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal, and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration, to work together.

In the months since the death of my beloved Philip, I have drawn great comfort from the warmth and affection of the many tributes to his life and work - from around the country, the Commonwealth, and the world. His sense of service, intellectual curiosity and capacity to squeeze fun out of any situation - were all irrepressible. That mischievous, enquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when I first set eyes on him.

In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole.

It is a source of great pride to me that the leading role my husband played in encouraging people to protect our fragile planet, lives on through the work of our eldest son Charles and his eldest son William. I could not be more proud of them.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.

Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Work is undoubtedly worship but laughter is life. Anyone who takes life too seriously must prepare himself for a miserable existence. Anyone who greets joys and sorrows with equal facility can really get the best of life.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

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

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

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

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.