Quotes on Work

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.