Thoughts About Work
In order that people may be happy in their work,
these three things are needed:
They must be fit for it;
they must not do too much of it;
and they must have a feeling of success in it.
—John Ruskin
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
—Confucius
There is no such thing as a big job.
Any job, regardless of size, can be broken down into small jobs
which, when done, complete the larger job.
—Walter Chrysler
I never did a day’s work in my life — it was all fun.
—Thomas Edison
Your work is really important.
Even the smallest job has such a definite place.
It might be likened to a piece in a jigsaw puzzle;
the puzzle would not be complete without it.
—Francis Gable
It’s not so much how busy you are —
what is important is why you are busy.
The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.
—Marie O’Connor
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
—Sam Levenson
Nobody can think straight who does not work.
Idleness warps the mind.
Thinking without positive action becomes a disease.
—Henry Ford
This one makes a net — This one stands and wishes.
Would you like to bet —Which one gets the fishes?
—Chinese saying
My father taught me to work;
he did not teach me to love it.
—Abraham Lincoln
A man who works with his hands is a laborer;
a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman —
but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. —Louis Nizer
There may be luck in getting a good job, but there’s no luck in keeping it.
—J. Armour
The safest way to double your money
is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper,
go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures.
Sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music.
Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Sweep streets so well that all of heaven and earth will pause and say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day.
Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
—Confucius
Enjoy the little things.
One day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
—Brault