Quotes About Work

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday

It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

Nothing falls into a man's lap from heaven. It is from labour that life grows.

Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.