Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

If I'm going to play without any rest I might as well not play at all. I rest a lot but I work a lot too.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.

With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

Let me just put it that way: I work really hard and play really hard too.

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

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

Success and rest don't sleep together.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?