Quotes on Work

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

A man's perfection is his work.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

When men are employed they are best contented.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

All work is empty save when there is love.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.