Work quotes

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)


A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)


Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)


Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)


Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)


Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal


Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)


Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
Donald Norman

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
Leigh Steinberg

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert