Work Quotes
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... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
Saskya Pandita
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
Cesare Pavese
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Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse.
Steve Southerland
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Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
Antony Beevor
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Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem.
Bruce Willis
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I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.
Steve Buscemi
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I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.
Simone de Beauvoir
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There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.
Chanda Kochhar
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A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name.
John Madden
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I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
George Shearing
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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
Thomas Carlyle
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I think we are at our best when we work with our natural eruptions, use them as fuel for the fire.
Joshua Waitzkin
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Wiesenthal's personal mission has ended, and there are others who are carrying on with the work.
Efraim Zuroff
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If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.
Nina Totenberg
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I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.
Angela Ahrendts
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Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.
Tiger Woods
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I live a fantastic life; I have fantastic friends - I stay out of the Hollywood stuff as much as I can because it's so much fun that you don't want to go down that path; you just want to work.
Sasha Jackson
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I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
William Faulkner
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
Estelle Parsons
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Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.
Lauren Bacall
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My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.
Scarlett Johansson
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I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.
Kevin Spacey
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We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.
Abraham Lincoln