Quotes About Work

Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.

I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring, and anxiety.

God respects me when I work, but loves me when I sing.

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I am convinced it is a mistake to find an artist human outside his work. If you cannot find him human in and through his work, you are better not to know it when you come to formulate an opinion of his public value.

The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Capital is dead labor that, vampirelike, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it suck.

No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas, And yet he semed bisier that he was.

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

I like to laugh, but on the court, it is my work. I try to smile, but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball, not on my face.

A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

The farmer works the soil, The agriculturist works the farmer.