Honest labour bears a lovely face.
THOMAS DEKKER, Patient Grissell
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
EMILY BRONTE, Wuthering Heights
- How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
- A youth of labour with an age of ease.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, This Side of Paradise
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, Autobiography
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human
Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on Virginia
If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.
RUDOLPH GIULIANI, interview, May 3, 2003
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, A Diary
I loved work and I loved pouring myself into the work, you know. It was the real life that I had trouble with.
ROSEANNE BARR, Larry King Live, Mar. 2, 2006
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
HORACE MANN, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
O. HENRY, "The Social Triangle"
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Past and Present
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
ANNE FRANK, The Diary of a Young Girl
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
It just seems so useless to have to work so hard and nothin' ever really seems to come from it.
TOM PETTY, Here Comes My Girl
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Little Women
The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.
ICE-T, Men's Health, Dec. 2005
Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.
HENRY FORD, My Life and Work
Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.
RICHARD PAUL EVANS, The Christmas Box
We are not people who believe only in the survival of the fittest. Work in America is more than a paycheck; it a source of pride, self-reliance and identity.
JOHN MCCAIN, speech, Jun. 3, 2008
Anyone can do the job when things are going right.
ERNEST K. GANN, Fate is the Hunter
A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.
NORA ROBERTS, Blue Smoke
- I am not sure that life, to any one,
- A fuller measure of contentment brings,
- With all its gifts, than in the draught which springs,
- From honest work, well plann'd, and bravely done.
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN, "Labor"
If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.
JACK CANFIELD, The Success Principles
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