Work Quotes
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The happy people are those who are producing something.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
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The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.
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The laborer is worthy of his hire.
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The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
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The moment a man can really do his work, he becomes speechless about it; all words are idle to him; all theories. Does a bird need to theorize about building its nest, or boast of it when built? All good work is essentially done that way; without hesitation; without difficulty; without boasting.
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The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
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The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
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The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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