Quotes on Work

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.