Quotes About Work

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

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

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

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.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.