quotations about work
If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.
JIM HENSON
It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
We need economy that rewards work, not just wealth.
JOE BIDEN
speech on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.
HENRY FORD
My Life and Work
Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOU
Facebook post, January 2, 2014
If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
BILL HAYWOOD
Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood
Call no work low that is honest;
Honest toil never degrades.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"Workers"
A woman's work is never done.
ENGLISH PROVERB
No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him. There is always work,
And tools to work withal, for those who will;
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
A Glance Behind the Curtain
Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Old Fox and the Young Fox", True Bills
None but those who work are entitled to eat.
AESOP
"The Brazier and His Dog", Aesop's Fables
Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Aurora Leigh
No nation can ever fulfil its potential without a positive mindset towards work, a commitment to work, and actual engagement in hard work. Work has to be a principle on which we build. Families should exemplify it, schools must teach it, churches must reinforce it and society must provide the opportunity for all to practice it.
AL MILLER
"The transforming power of work", Jamaica Observer, April 2, 2017
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
Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
HOMER
The Odyssey
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, The Quotable Billionaire
Many hands make light work.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
THOMAS EDISON
attributed, The Great Book of Best Quotes of All Time
I don't like work -- no man does -- but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself.
JOSEPH CONRAD
The Heart of Darkness
Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.
SOLOMON
Proverbs 22:29