Quotes About Work

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.