Quotes about Work
The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
— Octavia Butler
Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
— Oprah Winfrey
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
— Oscar Wilde
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.
— Oswald Chambers
Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Labor is God's education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out of the transforming work of Christ in us.
— Randy Alcorn
Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.
— Rick Warren
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
— Robert Frost
Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
— Robert Louis Stevenson