Quotes About Work

We should responsibly carry out the business that God has assigned for us to do

It seems quite pointless to waste health relentlessly in order to earn money that we shall spend on recovering health.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

In the meantime, I'll get a job. I'll pay my own way." "A job?" "Mmm, yeah. It's that thing people do to make money.

The person, who works for the sake of gaining money, is serving money.

Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.

We forget that money gives its value - that someone exchanged work for it.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there.

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at home, I'll only buy another car or spend their money.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.