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Famous Quotes about Work
 All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. 
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The law of work does seem utterly unfair - but there it is, and nothing can change it; the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in money also.
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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