Quotes about Work

It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.

The natural thing to do is to work to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course.

For the day's work is a great thing—a very great thing! It is at the very foundation of the world; it is the basis of our self-respect.

The healthy business, the business that is always making more and more opportunities for men to earn an honourable and ample living, is the business in which every man does a day's work of which he is proud. And the country that stands most securely is the country in which men work honestly and do not play tricks with the means of production. We cannot play fast and loose with economic laws, because if we do they handle us in very hard ways.

The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!

When you offer yourself to God as His servant, He first expects to shape you into the instrument of His choosing. He will always work in you before He works through you.