Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

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.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don’t have that in the rocket business. There’s no Foxconn in the rocket business.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

I only want my work to make people happy.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I will never retire unless I have to.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Study men, not historians.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.