Quotes About Work

You will tell me the quiet story of your day's work, without any object except to give me your thoughts and your life. You will speak of your childhood memories. I shall not understand them very well because You will be able to give me, perforce, only insufficient details, but I shall love your sweet strange language.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

Si je crois en Dieu? Oui, quand je travaille. Quand je suis soumis et modeste, je me sens tellement aidé par quelqu'un qui me fait faire des choses qui me surpassent.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that they make sublime, He feels and sees that Nature knows Nothing of time in what she does, But has a leisure infinite Wherein to do her work aright.

Work, whiskey, and cards were life.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow unless he sweats easier than I do.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Whenever you attempt a good work you will find other men doing the same kind of work, and probably doing it better. Envy them not.

Genetic variability evolves over many millennia, yet we know that the rates of anxiety disorders have skyrocketed in just the last century, not to mention the last decade. I believe this has to do partly with changes in lifestyle, diet, sleep and work patterns, and especially our relationship with stress. Our world is unquestionably complex