Quotes About Work

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . . I want to achieve it through not dying.

Well, it's always we ramble, that river and I,All along your green valley I'll work till I die,My land I'll defend with my life, if it be,'Cause my pastures of plenty must always be free.

Ma il comunismo, Steve, qui non attaccherà mai, te lo dico io, non solo perchè ci stiamo noi, ma perchè gli italiani sono troppo pigri, gli piace troppo vendersi il futuro per arrangiare il presente, guadagnarsi la giornata e ingravidare tutte le femmine che toccano. No, Steve, niente comunismo qua. Troppa fatica.

The gods give nothing really good and beautiful without labor.

Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.

I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

Nevertheless, to any employee, work is to some degree a place where strangers pull at you from left, right, above, and below, pinching, rubbing, and generally making a mess of you from morning to night.

Nevertheless, to any employee, work is to some degree a place where strangers pull at you from right, left, above and below, pinching, rubbing, and generally making a mess of you from morning to night.

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Am I allowed to be happy you're going? I mean shit, I thought I was just going to work outdoors for a few months. Now I know my beautiful dreamer will be with me? This just turned to paradise.

Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.

the fisherman's daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.

No, Arabs are not lazy, but we take the time to live life to the full; it is something Europeans don't understand. To them, time is money. To us, time has no price.

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

Hey, what about you? That monastery didn't make you soft, I hope." "The Cistercians?" Chris laughed. "Make me soft? They're the toughest order in the Catholic Church." "They really don't talk?" "Not only that. They believe in brutal daily work. I might as well have spent another six years in Special Forces.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

So? Most people hate their jobs. That's why they're called jobs.

Then they kiss again, and she goes to work, and he goes to work, and so the days go by, faster than ever.

The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at … something.