Quotes about Work
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
— Victor Hugo
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
— Victor Hugo
Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time
— Walt Whitman
I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.
— Wayne Dyer
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
— Wendell Berry
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
— Wendell Berry
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
— Wendell Berry
My work has always been the product of my time.
— William Saroyan
At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!
— Zig Ziglar
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
— Coco Chanel
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
— Martin Luther