Thomas Carlyle Quotes

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I'm very lucky that I love what I do. I've never thought of it as work. I've never done it for the money.

It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

It is against my conscience that you should play whilst others were at work: and that if you had any devotion to the day, you should show it at home in the exercises of religion, and not in the streets with pasttime and frolicks.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

I want the new upper class to start preaching what it practices. They are getting married and staying married in large numbers. They work like crazy, long hours. They even do better going to church than lots of the rest of America. Why not just say, these are not just choices we have made for ourselves. These are rich, rewarding ways of living.

If you're not working on something you're passionate about, it's a long, hard road.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.

I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

Hustle, Loyalty, Respect.

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie's not saying that you don't have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you're going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you're doing.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

"Dream big, work hard." My parents brought up Kylie [Jenner] and me to be workaholics. That's something I really appreciate.

You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.

All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.