Work Quotes

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."

"I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees."

"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."

"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works."

"What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done."

"When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want."

"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

"I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase."

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."

"A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales."

"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."

"In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research."

"When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it."

"The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living."

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."

"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."

"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."