Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake, but as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
Busy people are never busybodies.
What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.
Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
