Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

To work is to feel alive.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I love working. It gives you a reason to get up in the morning.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

Everyone should work; it's good for the soul.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

I don't do well when I don't work.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.