A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

23.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

24.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

25.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

26.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

27.

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

28.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

29.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

30.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

32.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't 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 the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

34.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

35.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

36.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

37.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

38.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

39.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

40.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

42.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

43.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

44.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

45.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

48.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

49.

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

Peter Drucker

50.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don