We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do
Oscar Wilde
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel
No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
Bertrand Russell
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you`re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Isaac Asimov
It is not work that kills, but worry
African Proverb
The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.
Lewis Thomas
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.
Charles Horace Mayo
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.
Steve Pavlina
Nerves provide me with energy. They work for me. It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried
Mike Nichols
What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
Matthew Henry