Quotes about Work
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
— Samuel Johnson
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
— Samuel Johnson
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
— John Calvin
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
— Charles Spurgeon
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
— Henry Ford
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
— George Bernard Shaw
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
— John Milton
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
— Theodore Roosevelt
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
— Robert Louis Stevenson