Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
Author: James Allen (1864-1912)
Profession: British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
Author: Maya Angelou (1928)
Profession: African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Author: Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984)
Profession: American Journalist, Drama Critic
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
Author: W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Profession: Anglo-American Poet
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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
Author: W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Profession: Anglo-American Poet
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Author: Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Profession: British Novelist
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Author: Colleen C. Barrett
Profession:
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965)
Profession: American Financier
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
Author: Gerald Barzan
Profession:
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Profession: French Poet
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Profession: American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
Author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Profession: American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Author: Robert Benchley (1889-1945)
Profession: American Humorist, Critic, Parodist
What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.
Author: Bhagavad Gita
Profession: Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.
Author: Bible
Profession: Sacred Scriptures of Christian