Quotes About Work

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.

Build a little fence of trust Around today; Fill the space with loving work, And therein stay.

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!"

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values - whether these values be work goals, the love of another human being, the raising of a family or personal growth.

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.