“Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.”
“Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.”
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.”
“Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.”
“A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.”
“The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.”
“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”
“When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
“Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.”
“Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.”
“What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.”
“I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.”
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
“I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.”
“Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.”
“No matter how big or soft or warm your beds is, you still have to get out of it.”
“Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.”
“You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.”
“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.”
“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
“Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.”
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
“I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
“Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.”
“Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.”
“Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.”