Work Quotes
157 quotations about Work
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.
Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
Plaster thick, some will stick.
Want is the mother of industry.
The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
A man grows most tired while standing still.
Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
The work praises the man.
While a person gets they can never lose.
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
The best work never was and never will be done for money.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.
Authors on Work
American Proverb
Maya Angelou
Brooks Atkinson
Jane Austen
Colleen C. Barrett
Bernard M. Baruch
Gerald Barzan
Charles Baudelaire
Henry Ward Beecher
Bhagavad Gita
Bible
Josh Billings
Susan Blow
William Frederick Book
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mamie Sypert Burns
Eric Butterworth
Thomas Carlyle
Dale Carnegie
Cato The Elder