Quotes About Work

DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.

I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

Vanity does not pay the bills.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

What we get to do at TaskRabbit is create jobs. I'm excited about the opportunity that we have to what I think of is creating everyday work for everyday people.

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

I really enjoy working in television and the evolution of a character over time.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

As economies have evolved, the nature of work has always changed.

For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

You know how few movies there are in the world about women and their work? I mean, it's like 'Silkwood' and 'Erin Brokovich.' There are exceptions, but they are so exceptional.

I'm just not the kind of actor to take things home with me in any excessive way.

I never consider whether an actor is small or big. Working with small or big actors doesn't excite me.

I'm always excited to work and excited to be on a show as good as 'Dexter,' for sure.

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a room and it's all white, those kids have to work to stand out, not you.'

They would say, 'Okay, do KP,' and I would say, 'Excuse me, but I can't do KP. I'll do it tomorrow if that's all right with you.' And they'd say, 'Hell no, it's not all right with us. You do KP.'

I've never made an excuse with my time in Arizona. It just didn't work out for whatever reason.