Work Quotes

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Thomas Carlyle

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand

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.

Kahlil Gibran

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Thomas S. Monson

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Henry David Thoreau

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Albert Camus

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Nadia Comaneci

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Mark Twain

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Mark Twain

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Mahatma Gandhi

Seek out people who aren't afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn't recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.

Paulo Coelho

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

James Russell Lowell

Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the magician with the fiddle-bow in his hand, who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him - why, certainly he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair - but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash also.

Mark Twain