Work Quotes

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, 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 host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Well done is better than well said.

Well done is better than well said.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.