Quotes About Work

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.

Life is my business; business is not my life.

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Michael Caine is so happy. Happy and healthy. I think he enjoys life. I think he's 82 now, and I have no clue if I'll be working at that age.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.

I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

You have to find ways of integrating what you like into your business life. And it's difficult at times, but I think over time with experience, you learn how to do it.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.