hard-work Quotes

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Well begun is half done.

Well done is better than well said.

Time is money.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

He that rises late must trot all day.