Quotes about Work

The work so performed is both remarkable and singular. It is a great work of love.

We too must work. Nothing happens in this world until there is work. You never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. You have to put your hands to the handles of the plow and walk forward. It is easier now, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful blessing that is.

There sounds the horn! Breakfast is ready. A most useful and salutary custom is that of breakfast. One may work with the hands before breakfast, but not much with the head. The machine must be wound up.

You do not at all understand my manner of life. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

he who delights in work will not long remain unemployed.

The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.

thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

For many years, the work advanced but slowly. One denomination after another embarked in the undertaking; and now, American missionaries are seen in almost every land and every clime.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.