Work Quotes
“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”
-- Mother Teresa
“I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.”
-- Michael Jackson
“It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.”
-- Jim Morrison
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
-- Bertrand Russell
“On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.”
-- Joel Osteen
“Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.”
-- Alex Rodriguez
“I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.”
-- Emma Thompson
“I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.”
-- Fritz Scholder
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
-- Vince Lombardi
“My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.”
-- Jim Carrey
“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
-- Mother Teresa
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”
-- Barbra Streisand