Quotes about Work

All good human work remembers its history.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul, the work of the soul, and good for either, the work of the other.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. It gives meaning and self-esteem to people who are parents. It gives a role model to children.

"A merry laugh doeth good like a medicine," said Solomon a thousand years before Christ. And today if we laughed more we would need medicine less. Aye, if we mixed laughter, love and work in the right proportion, medicine would be but a dream of things that once were.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.'" (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

Remember, never despise a task—any task. In doing any job, you are either creating something or bettering something.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

I'm unusual in that I've worked more as I've got older.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us, or inspire anew as truly original work can.