Best 5466 quotes in «work quotes» category

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

I hate Sunday, I can't wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn't have to come at the expense of our economy's bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn't have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.

I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?

"I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

I loved work and I loved pouring myself into the work, you know. It was the real life that I had trouble with.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

Implementation beats oration.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

I must of woke up this morning with a bug up my ass, I think I'll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass.

I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.