Work Quotes

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.

Kathy Ireland

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Bertrand Russell

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Richard Nelson Bolles

Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done

Thomas Carlyle

Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least

Henry Doherty

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work

James Whistler

A great demand today is that work should be interesting. This is a recent development in human history, and workers in field or factory over the centuries would have been greatly puzzled by it.

George Watson

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.

Judith S. Marin

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Henry Ward Beecher

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

My work is a game, a very serious game.

M. C. Escher

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."

Barbara Ehrenreich

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

Francoise de Motteville

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Henry David Thoreau

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