Work Quotes

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be doing at the moment. Robert Benchley

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. J M Barrie

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. Voltaire

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

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Joshua Reynolds

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Calvin Coolidge

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. Booker T Washington

Anything worth having is worth working for. Andrew Carnegie

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they’re doing. Samuel Goldwyn

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

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work. Isaac Newton

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt,

The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than fun. Noel Coward

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire

There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas Alva Edison

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine

I learned the value of hard work by working hard. Margaret Mead

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

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. Harvey B. Mackay

Give me love and work – these two only. William Morris

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. William Morris

When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky. Armand Hammer

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. Walter Gropius

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. Robert Half

The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. John Burroughs

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it. Louisa May Alcott

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. Jerome K Jerome

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity. John Lennon

Work is a responsibility most adults assume, a burden at times, a complication, but also a challenge that, like children, requires enormous energy and that holds the potential for qualitative, as well as quantitative, rewards. Melinda M. Marshall

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful. William Morris

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything. Laurence Olivier

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ‘It is the busiest man who has time to spare’. C Northcote Parkinson

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Charles M Schwab

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic – in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea – known to medical science is work. Thomas Szasz

People are still willing to do an honest day’s work. The trouble is they want a week’s pay for it. Joey Adams

Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity. Kay Stepkin

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity. John Lennon