Work Quotes

• "Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
• "To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
• "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."
• "A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."
• "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
• "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?"
• "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
• "Nothing will work unless you do."
• "To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."
• "Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
• "There is no substitute for hard work."
• "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
• "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
• "I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
• "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
• "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
• "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"
• "Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."
• "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
• "People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it."
• "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
• "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."
• "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
• "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
• "Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."
• "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
• "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."
• "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
• "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
• "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."
• "My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."
• "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."