Quotes About Work

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.

Query 1. Whether there ever was, is, or will be, an industrious nation poor, or an idle rich?

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses.

Speed his plow.

Peliharalah baik-baik pekerjaan anda, maka ia akan memelihara anda dengan baik pula.

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

A little work, a little play,To keep us going—and so, good day!A little warmth, a little light,Of love's bestowing—and so, good night!A little fun, to match the sorrowOf each day's growing—and so, good morrow!A little trust that when we dieWe reap our sowing! and so—good-bye!

One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."8

It is a work … outside of us in which God so deals in Christ with the sin of the world, that it shall no longer be a barrier between himself and men … reconciliation, in the New Testament sense, is not something which is being done; it is something which is done.35

Fullness" (pl?r?ma) has two different meanings. Some take it to mean that the church completes Christ — fills him up. However, it is easier to take it to mean that the church as the body of Christ is filled with his life and power,54 which are to work through Christ in the world. The church is a "partaker of all that He owns and is for the purpose of continuing his work."55

This is not to say a writer has only one voice or is limited to the scope of her backyard. But in some sense her work must begin there, at the rootwad. And wherever she travels she must take that place with her, must feel in the dark of memory for its shape.

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.

Farming is the recreation of great men, the proper pursuit of dull men.