Quotes About Work

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.

Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt...It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

I've been fortunate to work with companies that I endorse because I love their gear. Whether Music Man, Dunlop, or DiMarizo to me these companies have supported me in such a way that's invaluable.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.