Work Quotes

"Commerce has a natural tendency to soften the manners of men."

"The United States, if they mean to establish a national character must protect the mechanic arts."

"The industrious habits of this class of people will prove their best recommendation."

"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"

"Well done is better than well said."

"It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright."

"Fatigue is the best pillow."

"Sloth makes all things difficult; but industry all easy."

"Employ your time well if you intend to get leisure."

"Action makes the man."

"I glory in the doing of my duty."

"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work."

"Determine never to be idle."

"I do not want to die as long as I can work; when I have nothing more to do, I shall be glad to go."

"We ask the right to work according to our capacity."

"I have always held that a woman has a right to work according to her capacity."

"I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns."

"I am a woman speaking to a woman about women's work."

"I ask no favors for my sex; I want only that they should be permitted to work."

"The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade."

"A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds."

"Industry and frugality are the means of wealth; idleness and profligacy are the means of poverty."

"The great work of my life is not yet finished."

"I want to die working."

"I have always been a woman who worked hard."

"I am working myself to death, but I am happy in my work."

"The prejudice against women is so great that we must work twice as hard to be acknowledged."

"Every citizen should be at some period of his life, and the man who has never tilled the earth is generally narrow and prejudiced."

"The good earth is rich, by the effort of working men's hands are made fruitful."

"Well, I'll tell you, it all depends on how we've been raised. I was raised to work; that's all I've ever known since I was a child."