Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Quotes

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

Always plenty to do. Cannot well be idle and believe will rather wear out than rust out.

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

I'm a worker. I'm a grinder.

The Galilee is a quiet place because people have to deliver on time; they don't have time to quarrel.

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

I think anyone's success depends on working hard, Industriousness and Enthusiasm, enjoying what you are doing. You can't work your best if you're not enjoying what you are doing. No way you can force yourself to.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

I really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don't really, really love it.

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.