My Work Quotes

Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.

If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

If you think you are working hard, you can work harder. If you think you are doing enough, there is more that you can do. No one really ever exhausts his full potential.

As your bodybuilding aims become higher, obviously you have to work harder, until, believe it or not, you are performing from 20-30 sets of both biceps and triceps three workouts per week.

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

The possibilities of success are limitless, as long as you're willing to put the work in.

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

A program that has not been tested does not work.

We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction

Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

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.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

If you love something, the work will be just fine.

I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

The future of work consists of learning a living.