“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
“Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.”
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
“Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.”
“Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.”
“Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.”
“What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?”
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
“Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.”
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
“Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.”
“I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.”
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.”
“Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.”
“Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.”
“At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.”
“Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.”
“No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.”
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.”
“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
“My father always told me, ''Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.''”
“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
“Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.”
“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.”
“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”
“I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.”