Work Quotes
157 quotations about Work
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.
To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Work is the province of cattle.
You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.
Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.
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