Grenville Kleiser Quotes

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

To work is to live without dying.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Labor is life; thought is light.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.

No, working is what will keep you alive.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.