Quotes On Work (Page 2)

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.  ~ Edmund Burke


The work praises the man.  ~ Irish proverb


Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.  ~ Anne Frank


There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.  ~ Coco Chanel


Elbow grease is the best polish.  ~ English proverb


Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.  ~ Galen


If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.   ~ Michelangelo


We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.  ~ Eugene Delacroix


Amateurs hope, professionals work.  ~ Garson Kanin


Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.  ~ George Burns


The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.  ~ Sarah Knowles Bolten


When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.  ~ Betty Bender


Nothing will work unless you do.  ~ Maya Angelou


Make the workmanship surpass the materials.  ~ Ovid


Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.  ~ Ann Landers


Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.  ~ Ellen Gilchrist


To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.  ~ Frederick E. Crane


Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.  ~ Anna Pavlova


Congenial labor is essence of happiness.  ~ Arthur Christopher Benson


In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.  ~ Leo Tolstoy


Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.  ~ Joseph Joubert


What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.  ~ Lee Iacocca


Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.  ~ Dame Flora Robson


Work is always an antidote to depression. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.  ~ Vidal Sassoon


As for me, prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.  ~ Katharine Hepburn


The work will teach you how to do it.  ~ Estonian proverb


God sells us all things at the price of labor.  ~ Leonardo da Vinci


Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.  ~ Letitia Landon


Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.  ~ Gordon B. Hinckley


Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.  ~ Oscar Wilde


I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.  ~ Jerome K. Jerome


Give me a man who sings at his work.  ~ Thomas Carlyle


There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.  ~ Jack Kemp


Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.  ~ Pablo Picasso


My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.  ~ Abraham Lincoln


There is no substitute for hard work.  ~ Thomas A. Edison


They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.  ~ Ronald Reagan


It is only when I am doing my work that I am truly alive.  ~ Federico Fellini


If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead, make your work more pleasurable.  ~ Donald Trump


Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.  ~ Diane Arbus


Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.  ~ Stephen King


There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.  ~ Peter Drucker


If a man wakes up famous, he hasn't been sleeping.  ~ Wes Izzard


Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.  ~ Ann Landers


Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.  ~ Colleen C. Barrett


If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energized. I really love what I do.  ~ Donald Trump


I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.  ~ Winifred Holtby


Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.  ~ Christina Rossetti


The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.  ~ Margaret Fontey


The harder I work, the luckier I get. When you have momentum going, play the momentum.  ~ Donald Trump


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