I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.

Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes
first. . . . No longer diverted read more

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes
first. . . . No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way
a cow grazes.

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.

Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]

Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]

With hand on the spade and heart in the sky
Dress the ground and till it;
Turn read more

With hand on the spade and heart in the sky
Dress the ground and till it;
Turn in the little seed, brown and dry,
Turn out the golden millet.
Work, and your house shall be duly fed:
Work, and rest shall be won;
I hold that a man had better be dead
Than alive when his work is done.

Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed.