Quotes About Work

Melhor trabalhar e fracassar do que passar a vida dormindo.

We took up the hoops, and began to drop them into the sockets placed for them. You would not imagine this to be dangerous work; but, looking back now, the wonder to me is that any of us are alive to tell the tale.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me, I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. You cannot give me too much work; to accumulate work has almost become a passion with me; my study is so full of it now that there is hardly an inch of room for any more.

In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind." What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell.  From my

In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind.

life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work. 

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to work; it facinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Would you like to compare what you do around here with what I do?

A gardener! Isn't that the perfect description of what a real businessman is? A person who makes a flinty soil productive with the labor of his own hands, who waters it with the sweat of his own brow, and who creates a place of value for his family and for the community

In the kitchen Valeria was making breakfast, his aunt never made breakfast even though Carlo insisted for years that a hotel hoping to cater to French and Americans must offer breakfast. "It's a lazy man's meal., she always said. What laggard expects to eat before doing any work?

My dad worked for 40 years in an aluminum plant. I don't think he ever got "aluminum block.

But finding work worth doing and having people in your life worth doing it for…doing the best you can every day…that feels honorable to me.

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

There's nothing more rewarding or important than to be involved in God's work of redemption.

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.

Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.