Quotes About Work

Only that which is done

I dream in fire but work in clay.

As of today, I rebel against death! Work seems frivolous; I'm a proud man, and a lifetime's work would be too brief an agony for me. At the last moment, I'd attack...to the right...to the left...And then—oh!—sweet old soul of mine, eternity would not have been wasted on us!

The white men are landing. Cannons! Now we must be baptized, get dressed, and go to work. My heart has been stabbed by grace. Ah! I hadn't thought this would happen!

Man's labors! Explosions that, from time to time, illuminate my abyss.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

This is the best cure for melancholy: to set about doing something which will require muscular exertion and which will benefit others.

The work was heavy, but Vatanen liked that. He knew he was getting stronger, and he wasn't weighed down by the thought of having to do this work till the end of his life.

En este oficio, pensó con una cínica mueca interior, el único día fácil es cuando estás muerto.

They were all content - like pirates - to go around demanding favours as if this were their right; and all of them of course claimed to have the blood of the Goths flowing in their veins; and all were in pursuit of the dream nurtured by every Spaniard: to live without doing a stroke of work, to pay no taxes and to swagger about with a sword at their belt and a cross embroidered on their doublet.

depending upon one's profession, thinking is not always the most comfortable of pastimes.

Al nostro lavoro si viene avendo già pianto a casa.

El problema real que está planteando a los gobiernos de hoy no consiste en hallar una manera mejor de distribuir una riqueza existente, que evidentemente muchas veces está escandalosamente mal distribuida, sino en hallar, por medio de la educación, de la preparación para el trabajo y el estímulo a la actividad creadora, la manera de distribuir mejor entre todas las clases sociales la capacidad de producir riqueza.

Algunos, bajo la influencia del deseo, trabajan como esclavos. Se agotan trabajando todo el día y cuando regresan a sus hogares por la noche, están tan cansados que se desploman como cadáveres.

So, like a treasure found at home, That I have gained without fatigue, My enemies are helpers in my Bodhisattva work And therefore they should be a joy to me. 108. Since I have grown in patience Thanks to them, To them its first fruits I should give, For of my patience they have been the cause.

Some of us were born to work and others to keep the devil amused.

A gentleman does not openly work for pay, does he?

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

An aboveground political organization can't wage guerrilla war anymore than an underground army can do aboveground political work. Although the two must work together, they must have completely separate structures, and any links between the two must remain secret.

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work — whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty — is the great task of our generation as a whole.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.