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Quotes About Work

God sells us all things at the price of labor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
~ Martin Luther
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~ Mark Twain
the first place smelled like work, so I took the second
~ Charles Bukowski, Post Office
The source of work? Man's mind...man's reasoning mind.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.
~ Charles Bukowski, Factotum
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
~ Thomas Jefferson
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.
~ Bertrand Russell
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
~ Robert Frost
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
~ Robert Frost
Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.
~ H. L. Mencken
If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.
~ Voltaire
Work is the inevitable condition of human life the true source of human welfare.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
~ William Shakespeare
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain
As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.
~ Katharine Hepburn
There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
~ Maria Montessori
Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.
~ William Blake
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
~ Maya Angelou
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
~ Maria Montessori