Constant Labor Quotes

For me, the grind never stops.

The grind never ends.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I work all the time. Seven days a week.

All my life, Sundays have been a working day.

If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose.

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.

Our work is never over.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

I basically work all the time.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.