W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them

Nobody works harder than American workers. We are the hardest working people in the world.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

There was a time when you could make a living by the sweat of your brow. Those days are over!

People so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

Man is born to labor.

The whole contention lies between those that labor for a living and those that do not.

It is from his labor alone that man can draw the necessaries, the conveniences, the amusements of human life, from the materials which nature has placed around him

No human being has the right to be idle... Women must, as children of God, be trained to do some work in the world.

We have lost the old love of work.

Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do some of the intellectual work: he should help in the thought-labor of mankind. In a word, every thinker should work, and every worker should think.

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.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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.

I'm thinking, That's Barack Obama. He doesn't go to work. He doesn't go down to Congress and make a deal. What the hell's he doing sitting in the White House? If I were in that job, I'd get down there and make a deal. Sure, Congress are lazy bastards, but so what? You're the top guy. You're the president of the company. It's your responsibility to make sure everybody does well. It's the same with every company in this country, whether it's a two-man company or a two-hundred-man company... . And that's the pussy generation - nobody wants to work.

People can progress only by working and producing more.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.