Work Quotes

My father taught to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Abraham Lincoln ( 1809-1865) American president

I like world; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K.Jerome (1859-1927) British author.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo – Irish author.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Concentration is my motto first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident.

Thomas A.Edison.

All one’s work might have been better done; but this is the sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn’t mean every one of his conceptions to remain for ever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

Conrad.

There is no truer and more abiding happiness that the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, in the kind one likes best, and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one’s own life. Perfect freedom is reserved for the men who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

R.G.Collingwood.

Give me love and work these two only.

William Morris.

If a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the God’s have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Joseph Conrad.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of Labor by Capital, or of Capital by Labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by Labor, or of Capital by Capital.

John D.Rockefeller, Jr.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for ,never get paid for any more than they do.

Elbert Hubbard.

The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit the will to win and the courage to work.

George B.Cortelyou.

I believe in the inherent right of every citizen to employment at a living wage and I pledge my support to whatever measures I may deem necessary for inaugurating self liquidating public works…. To provide employment for all surplus labor at all times.

Franklin D.Roosevelt.

I believe in work, hard work and long hours of work. Men do not break down from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Charles E.Hughes.

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Dean Charles R.Brown.

There are at all times in America about a million men who are without work because they are not able to work, unwilling to take the work offered them or don’t want to work. They go to an office or factory seeking work, but secretly hoping and praying that they will not be able to get it.

James J.Davis.

He was in love with his work, and he felt the enthusiasm for it which nothing but the work we can do well inspires in us.

William Dean Howells.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K.Jerome.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

Henry Ford.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Charles M.Schwab.