Quotes about Work
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
— Victor Hugo
I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
— Will Rogers
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
— Charles Dickens
Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
— William Hazlitt
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
— Anonymous
The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.
— Peter Drucker
What we do in our parishes and homes contributes to what Christ is doing: preparing the Second Coming. That is the final meaning of our daily work.
— Peter Kreeft
we are participating in His actual work.
— Peter Kreeft
When I worked in Asia for a long time, I just felt like I needed a break.
— Fala Chen
Go, labour on while it is day, The world's dark night is hastening on. Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away-- It is not thus that souls are won.
— Horatius Bonar
I anticipate that our readiness to engage ensures our opportunities to participate in the mission, to complete the work God has prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10).
— Hugh Ross
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
— Corrie Ten Boom