Work Quotes

"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise."

"We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind."

"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

"You can't plan your life. It doesn't work."

"I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger."

"That's the last thing on Earth you should think about... There's just a whole lot of things that aren't going to work for you. Figure out what they are and avoid them like the plague. And one of them is bitcoin... It is total insanity."

"I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation."

"Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be."

"I'm confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key... I'm strict about my work goals and training."

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform."

"I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."

"Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term."

"I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me."

"What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do."

"No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me."

"I don't want to get lost in everything. I just want to keep the same work ethic."

"It feels good to have your work respected again."

"A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself."

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."

"It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be."

"Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work."

"It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of."

"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."

"All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth."

"All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity."

"I always try to do as much as I can do. I'm never a person that does not enough, because I'd regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn't work."

"I don't live to work; I work to live."

"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."

"Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime."

"I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do."

"We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself."

"To advance the Gospel by political lobbying, by any form of pragmatism, shallow Gospel entertainment, emotional manipulation, acceptance of sin and sinners, is to cross over into the devil's work."

"I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal."

"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."

"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."

"In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously."

"At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff."

"I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You've got to put in the work. You've got to grind. You've got go through the struggle, and you've got to get it."

"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach."

"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."

"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."

"When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well."

"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it."

"Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums."

"Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire."

"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."

"Our work is never over."

"Give me love and work - these two only."

"Immortality is a by-product of good work."