Work Quotes
“If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.”
“Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”
-- James A. Baldwin
“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
-- Elbert Hubbard
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
“Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.”
-- Caspar David Friedrich