1,008 Quotes Regarding Work


Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost

Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou

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