Will To Work Quotes

A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Rollover minutes don’t work with curfews.

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.

...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.

Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.