Quotes about Work

Work is not your enemy but your friend. How you work, not what you do, determines the course of your life. You may work grudgingly or you may work gratefully; you may work as a human or you may work as a robot. There is no work so rude that you may not exalt in it; no work so demeaning that you cannot breathe soul into it; no work so dull that you may not enliven it.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. And that, I truly believe that the reason I've been able to be so financially successful is because my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I'd do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn't an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and never had nothin. Seems like a old man'd be allowed his rest but then he comes to find they's things you have to do on account of nobody else wants to attend to em... Most ever man loves peace, he said, and none better than a old man.

You have to believe that there is good in the world. I'm goin to say that you have to believe that the work of your hands will bring it into your life. You may be wrong, but if you dont believe that then you will not have a life.

William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.

But beneath the populace of pleasure lay the populace of work, grim, grimy, and rather terrible.

The point is not: take all thou hast and give to the poor, but use all thou hast to encourage the industry and give work to the poor.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.