There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. Mother Teresa
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin
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. Sam Ewing
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vince Lombardi
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. Khalil Gibran
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. Robert Frost
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. Mark Twain
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. Ronald Reagan
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Joseph Campbell
All things are difficult before they are easy. Thomas Fuller
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. Al Capp