Work Quotes

"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress."

"Only a person who is constantly working is truly happy."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can."

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."

"The work of making poetry requires a particular kind of discipline and dedication."

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

"Work gives life meaning and purpose."

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

"Work is the meditation of the disciplined mind."

"One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love."

"Everything comes to those who wait, but those who work get it sooner."

"Intellectual work is for those who want to produce; physical work is for those who have produced."

"There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than take it with complete seriousness."

"To find beauty in labour is to discover paradise."

"Honest work is its own reward."

"Work with intention and purpose."

"Work is noble when done with integrity."

"The whole business of the world is to make things that matter, and the making of these things is what we call art."

"We cannot live only by plucking fruits; we must also plant seeds."

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

"All great things are wrought by labor."

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live."

"You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living."

"I have a right to nothing but what I earn; and the instant that I stop earning it, I lose the right."

"The mind dries up if you do not use it."

"Work becomes beautiful when it is done with love and dedication."

"Work without purpose is merely the marking of time until death."

"Blessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask for no other blessedness."