Work Quotes

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.

Work then without disputing, it is the only way to render life supportable.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

What’s important is that you’re working. I’ve always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don’t have a brain.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

To constitute taste, it is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

They can expect nothing but their labor for the pains.

The labour is so pleasant, that it is scarcely grateful in me to call it by that name.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.