Work Quotes , quotes about work

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
--Bette Davis

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve through not dying.
--Woody Allen

I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.
--Charles Horace Mayo 1865-1939 American surgeon and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
--Katharinde Susannah Prichard Australian Author

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.
--David O. McKay

You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.
--Carisa Bianchi TBWA/CHIAT/DAY San Francisco, in Fast Company

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
--Brian Tracy

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it Autograph your work with excellence.
--Unknown

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

There is no substitute for hard work.
--Thomas Edison

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
--Henry Ward Beecher

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
--Robert Frost

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
--Indira Gandhi

When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work
--Bernard Shaw

Early to bed, early to rise Work like hell and advertise
--Ted Turner

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
--J.M. Barrie

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
--Albert Einstein

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
--Homer Simpson

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
--Matthew Broderick

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
--Unknown  

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
--Richard Bach

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
--Robert Frost (1874-1963) American poet

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
--Bette Davis

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
--David Bly

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