John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

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

I like challenging myself. I'm not a person who likes not to work.

Honor lies in honest toil.

I was a hard worker.

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.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

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.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

Without labor nothing prospers.

I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how successful, there is something I can do better. That's kind of the drive I live on.

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.