Quotes about Work
Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
— John Bunyan
To talk of things that are good, to me is very acceptable, with you or with any other; and I am glad that I have met with those that incline to so good a work; for, to speak the truth, there are but few who care thus to spend their time as they are in their travels, but choose much rather to be speaking of things to no profit; and this hath been a trouble to me.
— John Bunyan
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
— John Calvin
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned
— John Calvin
As age and weakness grew upon him, so he hastened his labour; and, according to his petition to God, he in manner ended his life with his work, for he lived not long after.
— John Calvin
To this it must be added that a sincere love of the law of God is a sure sign of our adoption because it is a work of the Spirit...
— John Calvin
Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
— Henry Ford
It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.
— Tina Fey
Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
— Ronald Reagan
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
— Zig Ziglar