Work Quotes

“A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make pictures.”

“Work is the most fun you can have without laughing.”

“The wider our horizon, the more we shall see that we have to do.”

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

“Cruise directing is the best job in the world. I get to make people happy every day.”

“Men are not born to rot in idleness, but to be employed in works of magnificence and excellence.”

“The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work.”

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

“God speed the plough.”

“The only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours—all you can do for eight hours is work.”

“It is not the number of hours you put in, but what you put in the hours that counts.”

“To my friends: my work is done. Why wait?”

“If you have a discipline that is rigorous and that you can make progress in, that's what's important.”

“I'm a workaholic. I love every minute of it, and I'm a little bit of a perfectionist.”

“You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.”

“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

“A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.”

“I just want to keep working. I just want to keep doing my thing.”

“For it is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”

“A man can be an artist at anything.... It is the spirit of the man in his work that makes him an artist.”