Quotes about Work

We always need to keep working to improve safety - not just the cars; the tracks and everything are very safe now.

It feels like we have two threads running through our lives: one pulling us into the world to achieve, the other pulling us back to replenish us. These threads can seem at odds, but really, they enforce each other. It's not a trade-off between success and sleep.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.

It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.

The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.

Prayer is conversation with God while driving to work or awaiting an appointment or before interacting with a client. Prayer can be the internal voice that directs the external action.

One stay-at-home mom keeps this sign over her kitchen sink: "Divine tasks performed here, daily." An executive hung this plaque in her office: "My desk is my altar." Both are correct. With God, our work matters as much as our worship. Indeed, work can be worship.