Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

I always want to work.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I don't like laziness or cutting corners.

I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.

Just because I'm not dancing on a video every five seconds doesn't mean I'm not working.

After having a child, my career just skyrocketed. You have all that weight to kill off - you're working 10 times harder.

I feel like a million bucks when I get to work and I've already exercised.

Caring makes you want to work harder.

Free time is the enemy of progress

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

Hard work's a good distraction.

The more I work, the more I want to work.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.