Work

• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' -Don Marquis
• To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. -John Dewey
• Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do. -David Brent
• The world is divided into people who do things--and people who get the credit. -Dwight Morrow
• If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. -Ogden Nash
• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measures with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. -Donald A. Adams
• Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. -Henry Ford
• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -Theodore Roosevelt
• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. -George Sand
• The harder I work, the luckier I get. -Samuel Goldwyn

• The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. -Harry Golden
• When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. -Henry J. Kaiser
• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. -Richard Bach
• 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? -J. Paul Getty
• All things are difficult before they are easy. -Thomas Fuller
• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. -Peter F. Drucker
• We work to become, not to acquire. -Elbert Hubbard
• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. -Anne Frank
• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. -Elbert Hubbard
• Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work. -David Sarnoff

• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. -Jim Rohn
• You can work hard, you can have excellent educational credentials, but how many points would your attitude score? -Catherine Pulsifer
• Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time. -Demetri Martin
• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. -Dale Carnegie
• When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. -Colleen C. Barrett
• Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. -Marian Wright Edelman
• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. -Pearl S. Buck
• I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson
• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. -Vince Lombardi
• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -George Patton

• Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. -Voltaire
• It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. -Al Batt
• People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. -Edgar Watson Howe
• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -Theodore Roosevelt
• I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. -Samuel Butler
• There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. -John W. Raper
• People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. -Jack Canfield & Mark Hansen
• It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. -Mary O'Connor
• In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. -Dorothea Dix
• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. -Marie Curie

• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. -Emily P. Bissell
• Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do--do it and let it speak for itself. -Martin Vanbee
• The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. - Slappy White
• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. -George Sand
• If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play...if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work. -Patricia Nourot
• When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible. -Nancy Coey
• Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! -David O. McKay
• Work is much more fun than fun. -Noel Coward
• The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. -Albert Einstein
• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. -Margaret Thatcher

• Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. -Ralph Ransom
• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. -Dale Carnegie
• Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. -George Carlin
• There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. -Charles H. Spurgeon
• I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. -Charles Lamb
• If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. -Ogden Nash
• Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.-David O. McKay
• The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -Robert Frost
• To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy -Bette Davis
• If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. -Chinese Proverb

• You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive.They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them. -Carisa Bianchi
• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. -Vincent Lombardi
• We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. -Frank A. Clark
• Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. -Sam Ewing
• 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. -Indira Gandhi
• The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. -Robert Frost
• Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success. -David O. McKay
• I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -Benjamin Franklin
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas A. Edison
• My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -Abraham Lincoln