Quotes About Work

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.