Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Work
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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
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'Genius' (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
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This great maxim of Philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of nature alone: That man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or dream.
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All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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Mahomet himself, after all that can be said about him, was not a sensual man. We shall err widely if we consider this man as a common voluptuary, intent mainly on base enjoyments, - nay on enjoyments of any kind. His household was of the frugalest; his common diet barley-bread and water: sometimes for months there was not a fire once lighted on his hearth. They record with just pride that he would mend his own shoes, patch his own cloak. A poor, hard-toiling, ill-provided man; careless of what vulgar men toil for
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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'A fair day's wages for a fair day's work': it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble...A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.