Quotes About Work

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.  ~ Harold B. Lee


Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America.  If I'm not there, I go to work.  ~ Robert Orben


People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.  ~ Ogden Nash


Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.  ~ John G. Pollard


We work to become, not to aquire.  ~ Elbert Hubbard


I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.  ~ Charles Lamb


Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.  ~ Mark Twain


Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.  ~ Aristotle


Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.  ~ Buddha


He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.  ~ Saint Bernard


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.  ~ Thomas Edison


Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.  ~ Elbert Hubbard


The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.  ~ Oprah Winfrey


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


Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.  ~ James Matthew Barrie


Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.  ~ Doug
Larson


The trouble with the rat race is that if you win, you're still a rat.  ~ Lily Tomlin


When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.  ~ Henry J. Kaiser


Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.  ~ Mark Twain


If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.  ~ Malcolm S. Forbes


By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.  ~ Robert Frost


Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.  ~ Confucius


He that can work is born king of something.  ~ Thomas Carlyle


If a man will not work, he shall not eat.  ~ 2 Thessalonians 3:10


Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.  ~ Nadia Comaneci


There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right.  ~ Bill Cosby


He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.  ~ Menander


They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.  ~ Francis Bacon


Work is the curse of the drinking classes.  ~ Oscar Wilde


The happy people are those who are producing something.  ~ William Ralph Inge


The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.  ~ Richard Bach


The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.  ~ Thomas Jefferson


There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.  ~ Albert Camus


Work without love is slavery.  ~ Mother Teresa


If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.  ~ Plato


Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.  ~ Voltaire


Hard work never kills anybody who supervises it.  ~ Harry Bauer


How do I work? I grope.  ~ Albert Einstein


Whoever looks for easy work, goes to bed very tired.  ~ Yiddish proverb


Work and aquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Blessed is hewho has found his life's work; let him ask no other blessedness.  ~ Thomas Carlyle


Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.  ~ Henry Ford


A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with a career on a cold night.  ~ Marilyn Monroe


The work praises the man.  ~ Irish proverb


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


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


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


Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.  ~ Corrie ten Boom


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


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


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