Work Quotes

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.

It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.