“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
“Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.”
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
“Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.”
“I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.”
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.”
“Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.”
“Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.”
“At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.”
“If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.”
“Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.”
“To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”
“No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.”
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.”
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
“My father always told me, ''Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.''”
“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
“Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.”
“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.”
“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”
“There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”
“I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.”
“We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.”
“Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?”
“I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.”
“"I am afraid", replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."”
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”