Quotes About Work

I am able to carry storylines. When you're good at what you do, you're going to work. That's a good thing. But from the standpoint of being an attraction, sometimes too much isn't good. So it's a difficult fine line.

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

The dot stands for 'detail' - always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.

The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it.

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.