Work Quotations
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.” ~Thomas Jefferson
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." ~Benjamin Franklin
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” ~Thomas Carlyle
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” ~Henry Ford
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” ~Saint Augustine
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” ~Booker T. Washington
“Nothing will work unless you do.” ~Maya Angelou
“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” ~ Voltaire
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~Thomas A. Edison
“The taxpayer - that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.”
~Ronald Reagan
“There is no substitute for hard work.” ~Thomas A. Edison