Life Work Quotes

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

The life I live is my art work.

A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

You create your own life and your work. Give us your best.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

A life's work should be based on love.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.

Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it

Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it’s your job to earn it.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.

When I go and work with people, I never say, 'Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.' It's like a diet. You've got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.