My Work Quotes

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.

Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Strengthen in us, O God, the work You have begun in us.

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We’re all a work in progress as men and you still love us and I thank you so much for embracing us.

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.