Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Happiness, Business

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Hands, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle (1885*). “Complete Works: Frederick the Great, v. 7. Past and present. The portraits of John Knox. Miscellanies”

• Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, Labor, Idleness

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.16, CUP Archive

• Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Daughter, Pain, Creative

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.154, Lulu.com

• And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ease, Labor, Labour

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.90, CUP Archive

• He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Kings, Army

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Blessed, Men

  "Past and Present". Book by Thomas Carlyle, April 1843.

• All true work is sacred.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sacred, Labor

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.203

• Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Essence, Sacred

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.113

• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Work, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., Complete in One Volume”, p.197

• Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heaven, Earth, Summit

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.262

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