Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Work & Career (25 Quotes)

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

As one highway engineer put it, We were going by the book, but the damned mountain couldn't read. ... Every noble work is at first impossible.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Even in the meanest sorts of Labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Every noble work is at first impossible. quoted by Og Mandino.

A mans perfection is his work.

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

Work alone is noble.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

It is the first of all problems for a man (or woman) to find out what kind of work he (or she) is to do in this universe.

This Mirabeau's work, then, is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority Abiit ad plures.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

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