Work Quotes

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."

"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."

"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."

"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

"Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged."

"Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now."

"That doesn't mean I believe that reproductions are as good as the originals. There's nothing like seeing the real work."