Quotations

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.   Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.   David McCullough (1933)

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

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

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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.   Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.   Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.   Howard Newton

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.   Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.   Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.   Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.   Unknown

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.   Voltaire (1694-1778)