Quotes About Work

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

Strengthen in us, O God, the work You have begun in us.

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.