John Lancaster Spalding - Work Quotes

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We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

John Lancaster Spalding
To love the perfection with which we do our work, or the company of those with whom we work, is the secret of learning to love the work itself.

John Lancaster Spalding
Moral education is the development of individuality, and individuality can not be developed by formulas and mechanical processes: it is the work of the master who brings to his task a genuine and loving interest in the individual.

John Lancaster Spalding
Mercenary is whoever thinks less of his work than of the money he receives for doing it; and social conditions which impose tasks that make this inevitable are barbarous.

John Lancaster Spalding
Let not what thou canst not prevent, though it be the ruin of thy home or country, draw thee from thy proper work.

John Lancaster Spalding
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

John Lancaster Spalding
The test of the worth of work is its effect on the worker. If it degrade him, it is bad; if it ennoble him, it is good.

John Lancaster Spalding
Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

John Lancaster Spalding
It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them today,—this is the work of genius.

John Lancaster Spalding
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

John Lancaster Spalding
Each individual bears within himself an ideal man, and to bring him forth in perfect form is his divinely imposed life-work.

John Lancaster Spalding