Emurse

“Without rest, a man cannot work; without work, the rest does not give you any benefit.”
Abkhasian Proverb

“If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.”
Henry Ward Beecher

“No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.”
Max Beerbohm

“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”
Robert Benchley

“No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.”
William J.H. Boetckr

“You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you.”
William J.H. Boetckr

“If your work is work to you and you don’t see beyond that work and see the pleasure in work and the pleasure in service, look out; you are in danger of standing in your present station for a long, long time.”
Milan R. Bump

“All work, even cotton-spinning is noble; work is alone noble.”
Thomas Carlyle

“Nature has made occupation a necessity to us; society makes it a duty; habit makes it a pleasure.”
Capelle

“Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.”
Thomas Carlyle

“There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work.”
Thomas Carlyle

“It’s the men behind who make the man ahead.”
Merle Crowell

“The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.”
Eugene V. Debs

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
Chub De Wolfe

“Elbow grease is the best polish.”
English Proverb

“The right man can make a good job out of any job.”
William Feather

“If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.”
Malcolm Forbes

“Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you’re working at.”
Malcolm Forbes

“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.”
Henry Ford

“My grandfather once told me that there are 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 there.”
Indira Gandhi

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is duty, life is slavery.”
Maxim Gorky

“Work is the price that is paid for reputation.”

“Work is uninspiring, unappreciated and underpaid — unless you’re out of it.”
Robert Half

“A man at work at his trade is the equal of the most learned doctor.”
Hebrew Proverb

“A day’s impact is better than a month of dead pull.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“We work to become, not to acquire.”
Elbert Hubbard

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
William James

“Amateurs hope; professionals work.”
Garson Kanin

“I see no virtues where I smell no sweat.”
Francis Quarles

“Far and way the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”
John Ruskin

“Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.”
Voltaire

“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.”
Martin Van Buren

“We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.”
F.W. Woolworth

“Without labor nothing prospers.”
Sophocles

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