Work quotes

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Al Bernstein

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills

I believe people work for satisfaction. I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the
only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be
happy in their work and proud of it.
Akio Morita

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't
like walking or carrying things.
Lech Walesa

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
Saint Jerome

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but, as he was
given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
Mary Ellen Chase

One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is the
ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.
Erwin Rommel

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
Margaret Bourke-White