Quotes Tagged "work"

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

When I stop [working], the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day, so it grows stronger. ... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated, why, it's just as good as sex.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it, for the clamoring, hammering ring of it.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you never know where it may lead.

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Don't be afraid of hard work.

The work praises the man.

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.