Quotes About Work

I've used up all my sick days so I'm calling in dead.

A hand that's dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor.

...but I assure you that there are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor.

Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

The weather in India is often sultry, and since the tale of bricks is always a fixed quantity, and the only liberty allowed is permission to work overtime and get no thanks, men occasionally break down and become as mixed as the metaphors in this sentence.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. When work has disciplined a man, he may safely be left to himself...

To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.

Library work is far too pleasant to be grossly profitable.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

No one will dispute me when I say that the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.

Work on Monday?! My mind is telling me no, but my wallet says yes.

What do you call a person who is happy on Mondays? Unemployed.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way.

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

The older generation thought nothing of getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning — and the younger generation doesn't think so much of it either.

Sometimes the universe throws a handful of glittering opportunity into the air. If it falls upon you, dance! Then get to work.

Prayer is communication with the Divine. It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do. However it is expressed, it is never in vain.

The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

To-morrow — the day when idlers work, and fools reform.

There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.