Quotes about work

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

— Source Unknown

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.

— Source Unknown

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

— Source Unknown

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

— Source Unknown

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

— Paul Valery

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

— Raoul Vaneigem

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

— Voltaire

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

— George Washington

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

— Simone Weil

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

— Oscar Wilde

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

— Oscar Wilde

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

— Daniel Yankelovitch

Better to burn out than rust out.

— Neil Young

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

— Evelyn Ashford

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

— Bible

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

— Thomas A. Buckner

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

— Nadia Comaneci

There is no substitute for hard work.

— Thomas A. Edison

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

— Margaret M. Fitzpatrick

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

— James A. Garfield

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

— Wayne Gretzky

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

— Woody Hayes

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

— Lou Holtz

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

— Charles Evans Hughes

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

— Thomas Kempis

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

— D. H. Lawrence

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

— Charles Lazarus

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

— Greg LeMond

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

— Don Marquis

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

— Charlie McCarthy

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

— Sir Isaac Newton

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

— Ronald Reagan

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

— Jim Rohn

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

— Margaret Thatcher

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

— Source Unknown

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

— Source Unknown

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

— Source Unknown

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

— Matthew Arnold

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

— John Mortimer

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

— George Orwell

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

— Raoul Vaneigem

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

— Neville Kenneth Wran

Work is a part of life, not the point of it.

— Sean Adams

Teamwork: Never Doubt that a small group of thoughtful & committed people can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has over time.

— Jerry Flanagan

Working hard each day is a party in itself. You network, you get paid to be there and u love what you do. So its like you party everyday.

— Jvongard

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

— Alan W. Watts

Actions that are performed in terms of one’s prescribed duties, as mentioned in the revealed scriptures, are called karma. Actions that free one from the cycle of birth and death are called akarma. And actions that are performed through the misuse of one's freedom and that direct one to the lower life forms are called vikarma.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

When we love what we do, then we only do what we love."~Anuj Somany

— Anuj Somany

The best way to make a good day is to enjoy doing the hard work to better the productivity consistently and stay happy only with the performance excellence.”

— Source Unknown

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself, not for others--what no other man can ever know.

— Joseph Conrad

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

— Mary Mccarthy

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

— Phyllis Diller

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

— Erica Jong

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

— Joan Rivers

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

— Source Unknown

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

— Andy Warhol

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

— Jane Austen

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.

— Mary Mccarthy