work Quotes

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

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.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.