Quotes on Work

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.