Work Quotes

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.