Work Quotes
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- Edward Gibbon
You don’t push a wall and claim to do a hard work
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato
Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
- Francis J. Spellman
A woman’s work is never done.
- Proverb
Work is the province of cattle.
- Dorothy Parker
The harder I work the more I live.
- George Bernard Shaw
We work to become, not to acquire.
- Elbert Hubbard
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
- Mark Twain
You don’t put robbers to work in a bank.
- American Proverb
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
- Baltasar Gracian
When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.
- Portuguese Proverb
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
- David Sarnoff
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Vincent Van Gogh
The object of living is work, experience, happiness.
- Henry Ford
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
- Mary Oliver
Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Work is no disgrace it is idleness which is a disgrace.
- Hesiod
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
- Pablo Picasso
This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
- Eduardo Galeano
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
- Oscar Wilde
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
- Federico Fellini
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
- Al Capp
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who labours as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
- Bernard
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a writer talks about his work, he’s talking about a love affair.
- Alfred Kazin
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
- Louise Bogan
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
- Blaise Pascal
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
- William Osler
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
- Colleen C. Barrett
A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
- Nadia Boulanger
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
- William Carlos Williams
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
- Eugene Delacroix
A fair return for their labor so as to have good homes, good clothing, good food.
- Daniel Webster
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
- William Ellery Channing
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
- Walter Gropius


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