Quotes on Work

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.