Quotes about Work
As age and weakness grew upon him, so he hastened his labour; and, according to his petition to God, he in manner ended his life with his work, for he lived not long after.
- John Calvin
To this it must be added that a sincere love of the law of God is a sure sign of our adoption because it is a work of the Spirit...
- John Calvin
Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
- Henry Ford
It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.
- Tina Fey
Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
- Tullian Tchividjian
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
- Ronald Reagan
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
- Zig Ziglar
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- George Bernard Shaw