Quotations about work
How do we relate to workOf every noble work the silent part is best,
Of all expression that which can not be expressed.
William Wetmore Story
In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; I am rising to a mans work
Marcus Aurelius
Father, I scarcely dare to pray,
So clear I see, now it is done,
How I have wasted half my day,
And left my work but just begun.
Helen (Fiske) Hunt Jackson
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
A man’s work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else’s world.
Melvin Maddocks
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
Albert Camus
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
John Hay
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.
W. Kelly Griffith
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