Work Quotes

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. (Maxim Gorky)
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. View quote
John Ruskin
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. View quote
Aristotle
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. View quote
Hesiod
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. View quote
George Eliot
The beginning is the chiefest part of any work. View quote
Plato
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. View quote
Ogden Nash
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. View quote
Thomas Edison
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. View quote
Indira Gandhi
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. (Voltaire)
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. View quote
Aristotle
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. View quote
Homer
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration nay, it is a very easy matter but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. View quote
Plutarch
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. View quote
Laozi
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. View quote
Confucius
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. View quote
Herodotus
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. View quote
Confucius
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. View quote
Thomas Edison
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut. View quote
Albert Einstein
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. (Richard Bach)
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
If you can laugh together, you can work together. View quote
Robert Orben
Every morning I get up and look throught the Forbes list of the richest people of America. If I am not there, I go to work. View quote
Robert Orben
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
📖 Work Proverbs