Jane Addams Quotes

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

Good temper is an estate for life.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

That character in Solitary Man is probably most like me in real life: a solid person who has a good head on her shoulders and is very driven and practical, and not afraid to set boundaries. That's sort of my center. I come from the same place as the character in Solitary Man.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.