Work Quotes

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

Only where love and need are one, and the work is play for mortal stakes is the deed ever really done for Heaven and the future's sakes.

A man has got to keep his extrication.The important thing is not to get bogged downIn what he has to do to earn a living.

With malice toward none, with charity for all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in

It is for us the living ... to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced.

Half‑finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

I hold if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands.

I bring to the work [of president] an honest heart; I dare not tell you that I bring a head sufficient for it.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

God the Almighty has made our nation. By defending its existence we are defending His work...Therefore, it is all the more necessary on this twelfth anniversary of the rise to power to strengthen the heart more than ever before and to steel ourselves in the holy determination to wield the sword, no-matter where and under what circumstances, until final victory crowns our efforts.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.