Work Quotes

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many people who work without living.

Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

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

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.