Quotes about Work
The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
— Mark Twain
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
— Mark Twain
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
— Mark Twain
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.
— Martin Luther
I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
— Martin Luther
We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.
— Mother Teresa
Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.
— Pope Francis
If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.
— Pope Francis
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
— Oswald Chambers
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.
— Robert Kiyosaki