Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
~ James Allen

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
~ Maya Angelou

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
~ Brooks Atkinson

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
~ W. H. Auden

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
~ W. H. Auden

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
~ Jane Austen

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
~ Colleen C. Barrett

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
~ Bernard M. Baruch

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
~ Gerald Barzan

Inspiration comes of working every day.
~ Charles Baudelaire

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
~ Robert Benchley

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.
~ Bhagavad Gita

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.
~ Bible

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.
~ Bible

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]
~ Bible

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
~ Josh Billings

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
~ Susan Blow

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
~ William Frederick Book