work Quotes

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

The goal of working is to have free time.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its... ...

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.