Do The Work Quotes

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

I feel my greatest work is yet to come.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

How do we make the world work?

We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.

That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

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

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

If you are not feeling good about yourself, then you work out. But you do it for you.

I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.