Work Quotes
157 quotations about Work
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
How do I work? I grope.
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
Work is victory.
My work is a game -- a very serious game.
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.
My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
The sharp employ the sharp.
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
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