Quotes About Work

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

If you want work well done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is to love, laugh, and work.

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

Bright Blue Day   SOMEHOW Maddie could not buckle down to work. She sharpened her pencil

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

We should be able to realize that making up our minds as to what gives us the greatest amount of pleasure and then working for it, is one of the satisfactions of life.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

Our world was like that, full of words that killed: croup, tetanus, typhus, gas, war, lathe, rubble, work, bombardment, bomb, tuberculosis, infection. With these words and those years I bring back the many fears that accompanied me all my life.

I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.

They had all known one another a long time, they knew they were complicit victims, and they had no doubt about who the whistleblower was: she, the only one who behaved from the start as if the need to work didn't go hand in hand with the need to be humiliated.

Then he added, in an almost threatening tone: Without these rasping hands, professor, not a chair would exist, or a building, a car, nothing, not even you; if we workers stopped working everything would stop, the sky would fall to earth and the earth would shoot up the sky, the plants would take over the cities, the Arno would flood your fine houses, and only those who have always worked would know how to survive, and as for you two, you with all your books, the dogs would tear you to pieces.

She said that since then she had been very careful never to forget that we are very crowded beings, full of physics, astrophysics, biology, religion, soul, bourgeoisie, proletariat, capital, work, profit, politics, many harmonious phrases, many unharmonious, the chaos inside and the chaos outside.

qui noi lavoratori non siamo stati mai neanche dentro le zone salariali, stiamo fuori da tutte le regole, stiamo sotto zero. Perciò è una bestemmia dire: lasciatemi in pace, io ho i miei problemi e mi voglio fare i fatti miei. Ognuno nel posto che gli è toccato, deve fare quello che può.

What is clear to me, always, is that the writing must never lose sight of truth as its ultimate goal. Page after page, the drive to capture what is true, and not what resembles the truth, shapes the work. If, even for a few passages, the tone becomes false—that is, too studied, too limpid, too regimented, too well-phrased—I am obliged to stop and to figure out where I started to go wrong. If I can't, I throw everything away.