Quotes about Work
Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
— William Osler
Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
— Norman Vincent Peale
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
— CS Lewis
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
— Gloria Steinem
Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.
— Mark Driscoll
Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.
— Simon Sinek
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
— Abraham Lincoln
God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
— Albert Camus