Work Quotes

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln

Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.

Abraham Lincoln

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Ernest Hemingway

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

Eric Davis

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Elbert Hubbard

We work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

George Eliot

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Gertrude Stein

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Harvey Fierstein

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Doug Larson

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing

Ambrose Bierce

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Oscar Wilde

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Johnny Depp

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

Ambrose Bierce

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Richard Nelson Bolles

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

Keith Richards