Work Quotes

"The end of labour is to gain leisure."

"The craftsman who wishes to do his work well must first sharpen his tools."

Confucius

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small."

"Labor nourishes noble minds."

Seneca

"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present – I am rising to the work of a human being."

"No great thing is created suddenly."

"Hard work conquers all things."

Virgil

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."

Horace

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."

Samuel Johnson

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."

Thomas Carlyle

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it, they must not do too much of it, and they must have a sense of success in it."

John Ruskin

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence."

Charles Dickens

"The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor."

Leo Tolstoy

"Do the thing, and you shall have the power."

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do."

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

Bertrand Russell

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right."

Henry Ford

"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself."

Andrew Carnegie

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

Steve Jobs

"Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to."

Richard Branson