Work Quotes

"El trabajo dignifica al hombre y la nación."

"El trabajo es el precio de la dignidad humana."

"The great art of learning is to undertake but one thing at a time."

"The mind, like the body, requires to be exercised; laziness renders it useless."

"Men who have been raised by manual labor cannot endure confinement."

"There are different relaxations of the mind, as there are different kinds of business."

"The work of freedom is never finished; each generation must renew the commitment."

"The chains may be broken, but the work of building freedom is just beginning."

"The work of nation-building requires the same commitment that won our independence."

"El que no trabaja, no merece descanso."

"El trabajo honesto enobled al hombre más que la nobleza heredada."

"The more we engage in the life of action, the more alive we become."

"Industry and diligence are paths to perfection in all endeavours."

"The respect of the world can be obtained by work, and work alone."

"The great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people."

"A merchant is not necessarily an evil character by reason of his love of profit."

"The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment."

"The division of labor, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labor."

"The man who has acquired the habit of industry has acquired half the battle of life."

"We are born to act, and our understanding is of little use to us if not employed in life."

"Idleness is the root of all evil, and generates discontent."

"Labor in his calling is man's native and appropriate work."

"Work should ennoble the spirit, not crush it."

"Work is noble only when freely chosen."

"Work is noble when it serves a cause greater than oneself."

"Incessant work, the occupation of all my moments, leaves me no time to deliberate upon chimeras."

"My ambition has been to serve our nation, not myself."

"Commerce and industry are the true sources of national wealth."

"Work done with integrity is work done for eternity."

"To serve with integrity is to serve with immortal purpose."