The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
What you are will show in what you do.
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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?
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something that’s challenging and worthwhile.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
By the work one knows the workman.
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.
