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.”
“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.”
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
-- Woody Allen
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
-- Anatole France
“I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.”
-- Johnny Depp
“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”
-- Peter Marshall
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
-- George Eliot
“I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.”
-- Keith O'Brien