Quotes about work

"It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession."

Johnson, Samuel on work   

"The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

Keller, Helen on work
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"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."

Keller, Helen on work   

"There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble."

Kemp, Jack on work   

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

King Jr. Martin Luther on work
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"More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies."

Kipling, Rudyard on work   

"No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes."

Kollwitz, KaThe on work   

"Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on work   

"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."

Landers, Ann on work   

"Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?"

Larkin, Philip on work   

"Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity."

Lennon, John on work   

"The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,"

Leon, Sy on work   

"My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

Lombardi, Vince on work   

"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."

Lowell, James Russell on work   

"Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you."

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha on work   

"To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do."

Mansfield, Katherine on work   

"The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world."

Marden, Orison Swett on work   

"He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country."

Marquis, Don on work   

"In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic."

Marx, Karl on work   

"Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it."

Maurice, Priscilla on work   

"The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions."

Maurois, Andre on work   

"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man."

Mccarthy, Mary on work   

"Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K."

Mcevoy, J. P. on work   

"I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy."

Mcgoorty, Danny on work   

"Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact."

Mcintosh, M. C. on work   

"If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success."

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle on work   

"Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor."

Mcluhan, Marshall on work   

"Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness."

Melville, Herman on work   

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"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand."

Michelangelo on work   

"Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day."

Milsap, Ronnie on work   

"In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to."

Mitchell, Warren on work   

"I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow."

Miyazawa, Kiichi on work   

"Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t."

Monson, Thomas S. on work   

"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful."

Morris, William on work   

"As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead."

Morrow, Lance on work   

"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible."

Mother Teresa on work   

"If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."

Nash, Ogden on work