Work Quotes

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

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.

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.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Inspiration comes of working every day.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

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

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.