Work - Quotes

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. - Geoffrey Norman

A man is seen in his works. - Clement Metezeau

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby.... The man is now a man. - Thomas Carlyle

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work. - Cesare Pavese

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. - Thomas Carlyle

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labour and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. - L. P. Jacks

A work well begun is half ended. - Plato

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure. - George Horace Lorimer

All work is empty save when there is love. -  Kahlil Gibran

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations. - Henry Ward Beecher

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. - Thomas Carlyle

By the work one knows the workman. - Jean de La Bruyere 

Call no work low that is honest; honest toil never degrades. - Martha Lavinia Hoffman

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating work works too. - Robert Half

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition. - Elbert Hubbard

Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each man delights in the work that suits him best. - Horace

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. - Unknown

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky. - Henry Ford

Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself. - Samuel Butler

Every noble work is at first impossible. - Thomas Carlyle

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. - Napoleon Hill

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are. - Paul McAuley

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

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. - Zig Ziglar

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

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting. - Evan Esar

Hard work cheerfully done is easy work, while light work unwillingly done is mere drudgery. - E. P. Day

Hard work is the price we must pay for success. - Vince Lombardi

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some do not turn up at all. - Sam Ewig

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Honest labour bears a lovely face. - Thomas Dekker

How hard you work matters more than how much you make. - Michelle Obama

How strange it is that so many people have the belief that work is a burden and that idleness means happiness. Many are longing for the day that they will possess sufficient to quit work and take the world easy. They imagine that when that time comes their happiness will be complete. Alas, how many have reached this period of life to find themselves greatly disappointed! Idleness fails to give the happiness they expected and time drags more heavily than ever. The hardest job we ever tried was that of doing nothing. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better. - Donald Trump

I am not sure that life, to any one, a fuller measure of contentment brings, with all its gifts, than in the draught which springs, from honest work, well plann'd, and bravely done. - William Wilsey Martin

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. - Charles Evans Hughe

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. - Bill Clinton

I don't like work – no man does – but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. - Joseph Conrad

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him. - George Ade

If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well’. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work. - Mary Henle

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get. - Bill Haywood

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves. - Mark Twain

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. - Dale Carnegie

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to. - Jim Henson

If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad. - Rudolph Fiuliani

If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work. - Ogden Nash

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success. - Jack Canfield

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

In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. - Warren Buffett

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

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? - Henry David Thoreau

It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork. - Aldo Manuzio

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute. - J. Reuben Clark

It is useless work that darkens the heart. - Ursula K. Le Guin

It isn't the hours you put in your work that count, it's the work you put in the hours. - Evan Esar

It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours. - Sam Ewing

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work. There is no labour a man can do that is undignified, if he does it right. - Unknown

Labour is often the father of pleasure. - Unknown

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank

Let your work brag about you. - Unknown

Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose. - Leonardo da Vinci

Many hands make light work. - John Heywood

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. - Unknown

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. - Catherine O 'Hara

No man ever did or can do a great work alone. - Elbert Hubbard

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery. - Orison Swett Marden

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. - Sigmund Freud

None but those who work are entitled to eat. - Aesop

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

Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. - Hamilton Holt

Often times two people working together find easy that which seems insurmountable to one alone. - Unknown

One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right, the effective person gets the right job done. - John-Roger

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. - Albert Einstein

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

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work. - Maxim Gorky

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. - Frederick Douglass

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

Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man. - George S. Clason

Slow work produces fine goods. - Chinese Proverb

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter Drucker

Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way - rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice. - Richard Paul Evans

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. - Elbert Hubbard

The chances of a man's succeeding who does not love his work are very small. For all success costs labour. - Frank Chapman Sharp

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished. - Unknown

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves. - Benjamin Whichcote

The hardest work of all – doing nothing. - Malcom Forbes

The humblest workman has his place, which no one else can fill. - Maud Lindsay

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed. - Henry Ford

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

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows. - Charles Baudelaire

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. - Steve Jobs

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness. - Henry Ward Beecher

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all. - Christian Nestell Bovee

The right standard of work is perfection. You cannot attain it, but strive to go as near it as you can. - Unknown

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair. - Thomas Carlyle

There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas Edison

There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it. - Horace Mann

There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living. - Evan Esar

Thinking is the hardest work, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. - Unknown

Those who claimed they work smart had merely transferred the hard work from their physique to their brain. - Unknown

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. - Seneca

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. - Euripides

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. - Earl Nightingale

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. - Maxim Gork

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work. - John dos Passos

When master and workmen unite the work is soon done. - Wakatauki

Without work men are utterly undone. - Nevil Shute

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. - Albert Camus

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. - Simone de Beauvoir

Work banishes those three great evils – boredom, vice and poverty. - Unknown

Work for wealth, and if fame comes along as a result of your work, just accept it graciously. But always be on guard never to let them become a source of your misery. - Unknown

Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. - Leah LaBelle

Work has a bitter root but a sweet fruit. - Unknown

Work is a sure-fire money-making scheme. - Dave Ramsey

Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. - J. Richard Clarke

Work is the activity undertaken with our hands which gives objectivity to the world. - Keith Grint

Work is the best thing to make us love life. - Ernest Renan

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. - Theodore Martin

Work is the weapon of honour; he who lacks the weapon will never triumph. - D. G.Mitchell

Work is what you do so that some time you will not have to do it any more. - Alfred Polgar

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. - James Allen

Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. - Bill Clinton

Work provides us our daily bread and our daily purpose. - Studs Terkel

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time. - Kobe Abe

Work so hard that one day your signature will be called an autograph. - Unknown

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self-improving. - Mortimer Adler

Work to live, don't live to work. - Hank Kimball

Working hard is not a problem. Motivation to work hard is the problem. - Unknown

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

Work without love is slavery. - Mother Teresa

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. - Jerry West

You must love your work as you love a mistress whom you want to glorify. Once you are possessed by the creative urge there is no room for any other drive or thought. - Carl Hauptman

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. - Steve Jobs

Your work is to discover your work and the with all your heart to give yourself up to it. - Gautama Buddha