Joan Miro Quotes

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

I work hard.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

People work hard.

Without labor nothing prospers.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

I'd rather work than not.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

Honor lies in honest toil.

It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'

I was a hard worker.

I work like a dog.

There is nothing that you can do without working.