Quotes about Work
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
— Jim Rohn
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
— Henry David Thoreau
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
— Bill Gates
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
— Confucius
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
— Mother Teresa
Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
— Brigham Young
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
— Marianne Williamson
There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.
— Walter Brueggemann
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
— Martin Luther
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
— Thomas Jefferson
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day
— George Eliot
God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.
— Stephen Colbert