Quotes About Work

If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one's prospects.

We don't deserve anything; we must work for everything.

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving some level of financial comfort here

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.