Voltaire Quotes

The more my people work, the less vices they will have

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer.

He who labours, prays.

If you work, you prosper. If you don’t, you don’t.

If you work, you should not be poor.

Wealth has no source but labor

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

I was a hard worker.

I come from a family where happiness was seen as an 'extra,' a kind of frill to life - nice to have, but certainly not necessary and by no means paramount. Work was king. Suffering meant you were working hard. It made you worthy.

Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it.

My beliefs are that good people who work hard get their rewards. There will be struggle at times and hurdles along the way - life throws up all sorts - but in the end, you will prevail if you stick to the right path.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

Work first, and then rest.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.