Quotes about work
220 quotes from 151 people
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939Contributions of Jane Wagner
Mark Twain1835–1910The Lost NapoleonThunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain1835–1910Letter to an Unidentified Person (1908)Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
?UnattributedOften credited to ConfuciusI am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin FranklinIt is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
?UnattributedOften credited to Harry S. TrumanEnjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.
Gore Vidal1925–2012“Love Love Love,” Partisan Review (Spring 1959)
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.- Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. J. P. Richter, X: Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.
Virgil70–19 BCGeorgics (29 BC), Book I, lines 145–146 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough).Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Lines 435–436 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)Our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.
