We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Want is the mother of industry.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.