Quotes about Work
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is no happiness that isn't earned.
- Dennis Prager
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
- Thomas a Kempis
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
- JM Coetzee
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.
- Gordon Hinckley
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
- Grover Cleveland
Honor lies in honest toil.
- Grover Cleveland
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.
- Liz Curtis Higgs
Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
- Oswald Chambers
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford