Quotes about Work

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

The entire land sets out to work,All beasts browse on their herbs;Trees, herbs are sprouting,Birds fly from their nests…Ships fare north, fare south as well,Roads lie open when you rise;The fish in the river dart before you,Your rays are in the midst of the sea.

John Henry told his captain,Says, "A man ain't nothin' but a man,And before I'd let your steam drill beat me down, Lord,I'd die with this hammer in my hand."

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.

The laborer is worthy of his hire.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:But the seventh day… thou shalt not do any work.

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.