Quotes About Work

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.

The busy have no time for tears.

It you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful.

To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.

Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead?

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

The only time you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Borne the burden and heat of the day.

Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

I look back on my life like a good day's work; it is done and I am satisfied with it.

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

Summer is the mother of the poor.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Be content with your wages.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.