The most important question to ask on the job is not “What am I getting?” The most important question to ask on the job is “What am I becoming?”

—Jim Rohn

If you choose a job that you like you will never have to work a day in your life.

—Confucius

If work were nice, the rich would not have left it to the poor.

—Haitian proverb

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

—Robert Benchley

Even a mosquito doesn’t get a slap on the back until it starts to work.

—Anonymous

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.

—Sam Ewing

The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.

—Thomas Cowan

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

—Sam Goldwyn

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

—Indira Gandhi

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

—Sir James Barrie

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

—Robert Frost

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. 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.

—Helen Keller

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

 – Pearl S. Buck

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terrible important.

 – Bertrand Russell

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

– Thomas A. Edison

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

 —Winston Churchill