Work Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

A man perfects himself by working.

— Thomas Carlyle

A man's perfection is his work.

— Thomas Carlyle

All true work is sacred.

— Thomas Carlyle

Work alone is noble.

— Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Every noble work is at first impossible.

— Thomas Carlyle

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

— Thomas Carlyle

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Thought will not work except in silence.

— Thomas Carlyle

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by…

— Thomas Carlyle

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

— Thomas Carlyle

Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.

— Thomas Carlyle

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than…

— Thomas Carlyle

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all…

— Thomas Carlyle

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know…

— Thomas Carlyle

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is…

— Thomas Carlyle

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most…

— Thomas Carlyle

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it;…

— Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has…

— Thomas Carlyle

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to…

— Thomas Carlyle

... There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle