Work Quotes

"An idle mind is a poet; an industrious mind is a worker."

"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life or of the work."

"Work is prayer; prayer is work."

"I have always believed that hard work is the key to success."

"A man who has no office to go to—I don't care who he is—is a trial to his wife."

"I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do."

"Be as useful as possible while on earth."

"Work becomes noble when done with purpose."

"Work without purpose is mere drudgery; purpose transforms it into meaning."

"Work dignifies or degrades depending on its nature and necessity."

"Blessed is the man who has found his work."

"The secret to being ahead of time is getting started"

"A man may work from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done"

"There is no substitute for hard work"

"Work done with integrity is work done well."

"Work is noble when done with honesty and care."

"Work is the only nobility."

"The human heart may find rest in labour."

"A private governess has never a comfortable home."

"A man who has no office to go to is a man who has lost his reason for being."

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."

"The work we do with our hands feeds only the body; true work feeds the soul."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."

"I love my work with a love that is frenzied and perverse."

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another."

"The work we do defines us more than the words we speak."

"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well"

"Work becomes noble when done with pride and integrity"

"Work is the law of our being."