Work Quotes

"Every element of our character has been shaped by the labor we perform."

"Capital can only come into being where the owner of the means of production and subsistence meets with the free worker."

"In capitalist society, surplus labor of the masses is necessary to ensure the leisure of the few."

"Society as a whole is becoming a single factory."

"Wage labor is merely a form of slavery."

"Discipline produces docile bodies, and it is through surveillance and regulation that modern societies maintain their control."

"The modern world produces not freer subjects but more thoroughly controlled and self-regulating ones."

"Discipline works not by denying pleasure but by organizing it, directing it, and making it productive."

"The prosperity of a nation depends on the virtue and industry of its people, not its rulers."

"Work is the law of life, and effort the law of growth."

"Never be idle but when you ought to be."

"One of the sacred duties of business is to give employment."

"The true duty of an educated man or woman is an obligation to the society in which one lives."

"The laboring people of Great Britain have been the real architects of its greatness."

"Industry is a fortune in itself."

"I am very busy, which I like."

"Work is noble and dignifying."

"Work brings satisfaction and pride."

"Work defines human purpose."

"Work is the noblest pursuit of man."

"I understand the art of management better now; one must proceed cautiously and not attempt too much at once."

"I have always believed in the redemptive power of honest labor."

"Commerce, and commercial competition, is more powerful than military force."

"The principle of my life is to make my life pleasant to myself, but to make it useful to others."

"Labor is the capital which can never depreciate."

"Nothing is so useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all."

"Reflection is the enemy of action; thought is the mother of failure."

"The profession of law is indeed noble and exalted."

"A man's abilities are useless if he cannot apply them to a noble purpose."

"An army marches on its stomach."