Quotes about Work

You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich. I'm not talking about the trickle-down effect here. I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.

But here there is another layer that tends to obscure the underlying reality. In a company, the work you do is averaged together with a lot of other people's.

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

You worked so hard to achieve. It blinds us to everything else, to the moments we've joyfully experienced, to happy times and the bonds created during those occasions. How is it that hatred?

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for thou out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, for dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

And thus we understand, how the Whole of our Redemption (according to the plain language of Scripture) is inwardly and outwardly solely the Work of the Light and Spirit of God, a Kingdom of God both within and without us, and to which we do not, cannot live, but so far as we are inspired, moved, and led, by the Spirit of God.

Choose reality, Sarah. It's the only place where strength and faith can begin to work.