Work Quotes
“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
“I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.”
-- Aaliyah
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
-- Anne Lamott
“I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.”
-- Alain Prost
“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.”
-- Johnny Ball
“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.”
-- Marilyn Monroe