Work Quotes

"It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life."
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
-Don Marquis

"'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him."
-L. Estrange

"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."
-Elbert Hubbard

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
-James M. Barrie

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"
-Jean Paul Getty

"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods."
-Maxine Hong Kingston

"Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego."
-William Kennedy

"A fair return for their labor so as to have good homes, good clothing, good food."
-Daniel Webster

"This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart."
-Eduardo Galeano

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. "
-Henry David Thoreau

"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
-Albert Einstein

"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
-Albert Einstein

"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play."
-Albert Einstein

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
-Albert Einstein

"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Work is victory."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
-Abraham Lincoln

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
-Abraham Lincoln

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
-Abraham Lincoln

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
-Pablo Picasso

"In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'"
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."
-Buddha

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
-Andre Gide

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. "
-Plato