Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

Khalil Gibran

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Khalil Gibran

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

Odette Annable

Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.

Oksana Baiul

I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout.

Norman Wisdom

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

Norman Reedus

In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay lean and active looking.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.

Orison Swett Marden

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

Orison Swett Marden

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

Orison Swett Marden

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Orison Swett Marden

What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.

Merritt Wever

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Merle Haggard

Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.

Mason Cooley

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Mason Cooley

I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.

Mason Cooley

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

Mason Cooley

The pleasantest part of work is having done it.

Mason Cooley

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

Mason Cooley

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

Mason Cooley

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.

Mason Cooley

I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

Mason Cooley

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

Mary Kay Ash

I believe that there is no such thing as a subordinate. If the air-conditioning ceases to work in our building, then the repair technician becomes more important than the chairman of the board. We're all people working together toward a common objective.

Martin Short

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

Martin Yan

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

Menander

The workman still is greater than his work.

Mick Fleetwood

I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

Michel Foucault

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.