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

—Robert Benchley

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

—James M. Barrie

Work is much more fun than fun.

—Noel Coward

We work to become, not to acquire.

—Elbert Hubbard

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard.

—Helen Gurley Brown

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

—Albert Schweitzer

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

—Robert Frost

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

—Thomas Cowan

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

—George Bernard Shaw

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

—Bertrand Russell

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

–Haitian proverb

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field — and keep on doing it.

—Wilfred A. Peterson

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

 –Sam Goldwyn

At the end of the day, you want to respect what you do. In a certain sense, our work is us. We get into it, and it gets into us.

—John W. Rowe

When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: “Whose?”

—Don Marquis

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

—Howard Newton

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

—Ogden Nash

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