Quotes about Work

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.

They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars, but they whose work carves out work for more, opens a path for all. For he is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilization.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator." —Louis Pasteur

Suppose churches taught that God is happy and that he is the source of all happiness. Suppose Christians believed that God calls them to view work, play, music, food, and drink as gracious gifts from God's hand to be responsibly enjoyed within the parameters of his commands.