Work Quotes

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Jean Paul Getty

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

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
Henry Ford

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher