Ed Wood Quotes

Work, work, work, is the main thing.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

I'm a grinder....I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it gives you purpose.

The true success is to labour.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

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.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

In Italy, I am almost seen as German for my workaholism. Also I am from Milan, the city where people work the hardest. Work, work, work - I am almost German.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

There is no substitute for work.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.