Do The Work Quotes

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you're pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job. And life is too short for that.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

The important thing is to be relaxed in your work. Same in life. Don't make everything too intense. Then you can let everything go and not "act".

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

The thing I'm proudest of is probably like any sort of work I've done in the LGBTQ space.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.

It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.

In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'