Quotes about work
220 quotes from 151 people
Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun1912–1977“On Bureaucracy”, Chicago Sun Times (10 July 1958), as quoted in Gaither’s Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, 2nd edition (2012), by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, editors, p. 925I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.
Charles Bukowski1920–1994Post Office (1971)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Lucretia (1846), Part II, Chapter XIII would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Signs of the Times (1829)Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Past and Present (1843), Bk. III, ch. 11.
Jimmy Carrborn 1972Will Hodgkinson (16 December 2004) “Comedy’s overgrown schoolboy”, The Irish Times.
