Quotes About Work

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

My father was a manual worker.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

It's just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

Concentrate on doing the job, not the fear.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

When you finish your dream, don't forget to wake up and go to work.

You don't pay with money, you pay with hours of your life.

If you don't suffer the pain of hard work now, you will suffer the pain of regret later.

Time reminds us that we are still alive and have a lot of work to do.

Work without interest is imprisonment. Even if you aren't super-passionate about your work, you've got to at least be interested in it. When you design a lifestyle in which your work is something you suffer through daily strictly to pay your bills, you end up spending your entire life wishing you had someone else's.

The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.

You can have anything your heart desires if you are willing enough to work for it and patient enough to wait for it to be yours.