Quotes About Work

If you work you will never go hungry.

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

Give the labourer his wage before his perspiration be dry.

Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.

One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.

Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength his glory and his pleasure.

He that can work is a born king of something.

Love of bustle is not industry.

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

God gave man work not to burden him but to bless him and useful work willingly cheerfully effectively done has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.

Work is more fun than fun.

When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

If a man will not work he shall not eat.