Why do you send fools to judge my work?
—Michelangelo
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
—Henry Ford
What the Apostle is concerned to deny is any intrusion of human merit into the work by which salvation is obtained.
—J. Gresham Machen
God alone is the Author of life; and if you are to be born again, it must be God’s work. You cannot save yourself.
—D. L. Moody
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. – C.S. Lewis
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
—Thomas Jefferson
“Let us believe great things from the work of Christ by his Spirit in the midst of his people’s hearts, and we shall not be disappointed.”
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
—Plato
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
—Thomas Edison
Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
—Carl Jung
Work as if you’re going to live forever, and treat people as if you’re going to die at any second.
—Leo Tolstoy
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
—Thomas Edison
I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
—Thomas Edison
To save sinners through believing, shall be found to be a far more admirable work than to create the world from nothing.
—John Owen
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
—Michelangelo
“One has a work given him of God to do, and if he does it rightly he cannot do it carelessly.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the people of our century, I would simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
—Thomas Edison
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
Control your body if you want your mind to work properly.
—René Descartes
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
—Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
—Aristotle
If Jesus built a ship,
She would travel trim;
If Jesus roofed a barn,
No leaks would be left by Him;
If Jesus planted a garden,
He would make it like Paradise;
If Jesus did my day’s work,
It would delight His Father’s eyes.
—Amy Carmichael
One more, I exhort you that fear God and work righteousness, you that are servants of God.
—John Wesley