Work Quotes

"Work gives meaning and purpose to life."

"There is work enough to busy the strongest and highest intelligence."

"Work is the law of life."

"One's life work is not always the work one would have chosen had one been free to choose."

"All wages are 'paid' in the coin of the public's gratitude; that is the real wage."

"Every bit of honest work brings its own cure."

"The responsibility of the writer is not primarily to society but to himself."

"Work without meaning is merely servitude."

"I do not know if I have written anything good, but I have tried to make the best of it."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover the two or three great images."

"One learns one's technique and then one does it."

"Work is the only thing that gives life meaning."

"The wage earner finds it exceedingly difficult to save money for old age and disability by the pittance which he gets for his daily toil."

"There is one thing that the working man should understand, and that is that the capitalist does not employ him out of charity."

"Every man wants to feel that he is being appreciated and that his work counts for something."

"Work is the best cure for melancholy."

"Work is the substance of life; without it, there is no meaning."

"Work is love made visible; do it with all your heart."

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do."

"To work for six days only is to change the nature of sandwiches."

"Get a job where they need you—not where you need them."

"Hog butcher for the world."

"Work done with passion is never truly work."

"Work is dignified when done with integrity."

"The work of your hands reflects the condition of your heart."

"The great undershirt industry was a new revelation to me."

"What we get out of the world is only in proportion to what we put into it."

"The greatest reward is the work itself."

"Work gives life meaning and purpose."

"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."