Quotes About Work

“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

— Carl Jung

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Do more than dream: work.”

— William Arthur Ward

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

— Barack Obama

“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

— Jane Austen

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

— Aristotle

“Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves.”

— Naruto Uzumaki

“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”

— Epictetus

“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

— Niels Bohr

“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.”

— David McCullough

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”

— John Lubbock

“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”

— John Locke

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

— Buddha

“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”

— Suzanne Collins

“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”

— Thomas Edison

“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

— Roy T. Bennett

“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

— Alan Watts

“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

— George Herbert

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

— Thomas Edison