Quotes about Work

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy.

Work is the law; whoever spurns it as tiresome will have it as punishment

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

I might put it another way: Franz felt his book life to be unreal. He yearned for real life, for the touch of people walking side by side with him, for their shouts. It never occurred to him that what he considered unreal (the work he did in the solitude of the office or library) was in fact his real life, whereas the parades he imagined to be reality were nothing but theater, dance, carnival- in other words, a dream.

For time spurred on by jealousy passes with amazing speed. Jealousy occupies the mind more completely than passionate intellectual work. The mind has not a moment of leisure. A victim of jealousy never knows boredom

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.