Quotes about Work
The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
- Charles Spurgeon
We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.
- Erica Jong
Dream with all of your mind.Work with all of your heart.Persevere with all of your strength.Succeed with all of your soul.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
- John Eldredge
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
- William Wilberforce
Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.
- Charles Hodge
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
- Vance Havner
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
- Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
- Victor Hugo
I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
- Will Rogers
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
- Charles Dickens
Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
- William Hazlitt