Quotes about Work

I think the best possible social program is a job

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

Let waiting be our work, as it is His. And, if His waiting is nothing but goodness and graciousness, let ours be nothing but a rejoicing in that goodness, and a confident expectancy of that grace. And, let every thought of waiting become to us the simple expression of unmingled and unutterable blessedness, because it brings us to a God who waits that He may make Himself known to us perfectly as the gracious One.   My soul, wait thou only upon God!

Do not confuse work and fruit. There may be a good deal of work for Christians that is not the fruit of the Heavenly Vine.

If salvation indeed comes from God, and is entirely His work, just as creation was, it follows, as a matter of course, that our first and highest duty is to wait on Him to do the work that pleases Him.

Faith is the one condition on which all divine power can enter into man and work through him.