Will To Work Quotes

He that can work is a born king of something.

Love of bustle is not industry.

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

Because it is less structured than work leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work.

Workaholics commit slow suicide by refusing to allow the child inside them to play.

In a professional once engaged the performance of the job comes first.

If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

God gave man work not to burden him but to bless him and useful work willingly cheerfully effectively done has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.

Work is more fun than fun.

When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

It is not upon thee to finish the work neither art thou free to abstain from it.

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

If a man will not work he shall not eat.

He who shuns the millstone shuns the meal.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.

When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.

While I am busy with little things I am not required to do greater things.

A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.

When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing the act of work everything.

When I die my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified if he does it right.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small you never know where it may lead.

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

Ambition is destruction only competence matters.

Here I am where I ought to be.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

You have to do what you love to do not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights some are born to juggle golden balls.

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous down the black lines over and over but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.

Do your duty until it becomes your joy.

Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.