“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” – Khalil Gibran
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” – John Dewey
“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” – Samuel Butler
“We work to become, not to acquire.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Samuel Goldwyn
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” – Henry Ford
“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.” – Henry Ford
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Laozi
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.” Michelangelo
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it ,go through ,or work around it.” Michael Jordan
“Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.” Jessica Guidobono
“If “Plan A” didn’t work, don’t worry, there’s 25 more letters. B cool.
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picaso
Good Work
Is work something that we have a right to escape? And can we escape it with impunity? We are probably the first entire people ever to think so. All the ancient wisdom that has come down to us counsels otherwise. It tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis—only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy.
