Quotes about Work
That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.
— Dorothy Sayers
None but those who work are entitled to eat.
— Aesop
For if this commission is behind us in Christian work, remember, always we are sent out to be exceptional in ordinary things, among sometimes mean people, in frequently sordid surroundings. Only the man sent by the King of kings could take that, and only the man with a true burden will ever accept it.
— Alan Redpath
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.
— Nikki Giovanni
Marriage is work, Cora, I'm not going to lie. It's glorious some days and not so much on others.
— Rachel Hauck
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is idle who can do something better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I watch 'Take Me Out' mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.
— Maxine Peake
Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.
— Karl Barth
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.
— John Bunyan