Work Quotes

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

Life, Love, Job

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Humanity, Labor, Dignity

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

Looks, Missed, Dressed

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

May, Working, Boss

Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou

Nothing, Unless

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa

Love, God, Respect

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin

Happy, Working, Miserable

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

Character, Hard, Turn

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi

Success, Before, Place

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Made, Joy

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost

Morning, Brain, Working

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain

Evil, Necessary, Avoided

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Best, Hard

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

Drinking, Curse, Classes

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Someone, Service

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell

Money, Live, Job

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

Before, Difficult, Easy

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus

Great, Art, Heart

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

Love, Money, Him

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

Anyone, Walk, Office

The pay is good and I can walk to work.
John F. Kennedy

Good, Walk, Pay

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard

Good, Best, Today

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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey

Happiness, Find, Key

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank

May, Laziness, Attractive

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

Poet, Condition, Profession

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