Quotes About Work

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

I need to put bread on the table man

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

the Lord knows everyone as he really is and gives each his work to do -- according to what He sees to be most fitting for his soul, and for His own Self, and for the good of his neighbor.

Let humility be always at work, like the bee at the honeycomb, or all will be lost.

She talked about work; he talked about school. Carmella mentioned that she might be up for a promotion by the end of the year, and Adam said that Group, in the end, might work out after all. And during that whole time, they told each other everything except for the part that they didn't. Mother and son were as honest as two people lying to each other could be.