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Quotes About Work

opinions do not give talent, they always spoil what talent there is; and the poor fellow whom you have just seen is a proof thereof. An artist's opinion ought to be: Faith in his art, in his work; and his only way of success is toil when nature has given him the sacred fire.
~ Honore de Balzac
And, then, my daughter, my daughter! whose nurse I am, whose companion I must be; so that I can work but a few hours snatched from sleep. Ah, young man! none but the wretched can judge the wretched! Sometimes I think I used to be too stern to misery.
~ Honore de Balzac
Ces journalistes obscurs, payés seulement après l'insertion, restaient souvent pendant la nuit aux imprimeries pour voir mettre sous presse, soit les grands articles obtenus, Dieu sait comme ! soit ces quelques lignes qui prirent depuis le nom de réclames. Aujourd'hui,
~ Honore de Balzac
if reason and poesy persist in wrangling with the tools, the brushes, we shall be brought to doubt, like Frenhofer, who is as much excited in brain as he is exalted in art. A sublime painter, indeed; but he had the misfortune to be born rich, and that enables him to stray into theory and conjecture. Do not imitate him. Work! work! painters should theorize with their brushes in their hands.
~ Honore de Balzac
I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.
~ Hope Davis
Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free.
~ Horace
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
~ Horace
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
~ Horace
We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.
~ Horace Bushnell
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
~ Horace Greeley
It is forgiveness that sets a man working for God. He does not work in order to be forgiven, but because he has been forgiven, and the consciousness of his sin being pardoned makes him long for its entire removal than ever he did before. An unforgiven man cannot work. He has not the will, nor the power, nor the liberty. He is in chains. Israel in Egypt could not serve Jehovah. "Let my people go, that they may serve Me." was God's message to Pharaoh (exodus 8:1) first liberty, then service.
~ Horatius Bonar
Go, labour on while it is day, The world's dark night is hastening on. Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away-- It is not thus that souls are won.
~ Horatius Bonar
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
~ Hosea Ballou
But as even the internal evidences of scripture would be insufficient to support their authority without the concurrence of external evidence, so would the external be found wanting without the internal. But these together are abundantly sufficient to establish the credibility of this gospel, which is, like every thing else of the work and wisdom of God, the wonder and admiration of the believing soul.
~ Hosea Ballou
Anna thought about the men outside on the gallery. She was glad they were there; finding them smoking and talking quietly had been comforting, it was what men did in the evenings when the work was done. Of course, the work was not done, and she doubted that it ever would be. It would go on and on, even after the house was emptied of strangers, long after the wildflowers had blossomed a hundred times on their graves.
~ Unknown
By introducing these elements at the outset, I wish to stress that all creative activity grows, first, out of the relationships between an individual and the objective world of work and, second, out of the ties between an individual and other human beings.
~ Unknown
If you learn how to work and grow, you will find that your life cannot be destroyed by the outside world. If you have to work eight hours a day, give three or one that belongs to you without money. This "Who Are You?" has to be reinforced.
~ Unknown
Another outstanding work dealing with the rationality of science is Marcello Pera's The Discourses of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994
~ Unknown
Infusing work with purpose and meaning, however, is a two-way street. Yes, love what you do, but your company should love you back.
~ Howard Schultz
Because not everyone can take charge of his or her destiny, those who do rise to positions of authority have a responsibility to those whose daily work keeps the enterprise running, not only to steer the correct course but to make sure no one is left behind.
~ Howard Schultz
El trabajo debe ser algo personal. En todos los casos. No sólo para el artista y el empresario. El trabajo debe tener significado para el contable, el obrero de la construcción, el técnico, el director y el administrativo.
~ Howard Schultz
Nothing is casual. Everything requires work, research, and thought. Agonize. Take it seriously. Don't leave it up to someone else, and don't phone it in. There is no such thing as a shortcut if you are going to turn in good work. If I ever enjoy the process, I know I have somehow produced something worthless.
~ Howard Stern
The full Irish breakfast - cereal, juice, bread, butter, jam, eggs, sausage, bacon and blood pudding - was invented by people who worked hard outdoors for up to sixteen hours a day in all kinds of weather. They had to eat huge amounts of high-calories in order to die young and get some rest.
~ Unknown
Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.
~ Howie Carr