“We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.”
“I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.”
“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
“The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.”
“The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.”
“In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.”
“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.”
“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.”
“It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.”
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.”
“I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.”
“He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.”
“It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.”
“Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.”
“Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.”
“When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.”
“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”
“Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.”
“If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”
“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.”
“A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.”
“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
“The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''”
“To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
“The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.”
“Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.”
“Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.”
“Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.”
“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”