Quotes About Work

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

I don't work. I merely inflict myself on the public.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.