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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus


All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. Martin Luther King, Jr.


All things are difficult before they are easy. Thomas Fuller


Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. Al Capp


As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. Irvin S. Cobb


Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert


Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas A. Edison


Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle


Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. Thomas A. Edison


Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt


Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? J. Paul Getty


Great ideas originate in the muscles. Thomas A. Edison


Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. Sam Ewing


I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. Richard Nelson Bolles


I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison


It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. Pablo Picasso


It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. William Faulkner


Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank


Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace


Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller


Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. Booker T. Washington


Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. George Halas


Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou


Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. Ann Landers


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison


Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker


Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. Ann Richards


The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. Elbert Hubbard


The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost


The harder I work, the luckier I get. Samuel Goldwyn


The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach


The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vince Lombardi


The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. Harry Golden


The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Arnold J. Toynbee


The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. Ronald Reagan


There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. J. Paul Getty


There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Richard Nelson Bolles


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


There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas A. Edison


To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. Pearl S. Buck


To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey


We work to become, not to acquire. Elbert Hubbard


When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' Don Marquis


When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. Calvin Coolidge


When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. Henry J. Kaiser


Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. C. Northcote Parkinson


Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. Mark Twain


Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. Pablo Picasso


Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter


Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. Kahlil Gibran


Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand


Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde


Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with. Stevie Wonder