Work Quotes

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. (Maxim Gorky)
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. View quote
Aristotle
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. View quote
Thomas Edison
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. View quote
Ogden Nash
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. View quote
Indira Gandhi
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. View quote
Confucius
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. View quote
Voltaire
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. View quote
Herodotus
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. View quote
Thomas Edison
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. (George Eliot)
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. View quote
John Ruskin
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. View quote
Richard Bach
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut. View quote
Albert Einstein
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. View quote
Colin Powell
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. View quote
Robert Frost
We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. (Emo Philips)
We work so consistently to disguise ourselves to others that we end by being disguised to ourselves. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. View quote
Will Rogers
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. View quote
Elbert Hubbard