Quotes About Work

He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.

When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified if he does it right.

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

Work alternated with needful rest is the salvation of man or woman.

Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

To industry nothing is impossible.

I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.

I have worked all my life wanted to work all my life needed to work all my life.