Quotes About Work

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

You work, you get paid, you drink.

It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.

If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.

To work is to feel alive.

There is no more worthy, more glorious or more potent work, than to work with light.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.