Lin Yutang Quotes

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.

To work is to live without dying.

I spend a lot of time working.

I don't like not working.

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

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

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

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

I'm a grinder....I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it gives you purpose.

I would rather be sick than idle.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

One either meets or one works.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.