Work Quotes

“A man can be an artist at anything.... It is the spirit of the man in his work that makes him an artist.”

“Business is more exciting than any game.”

“A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.”

“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.”

“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”

“Cruise directing is the best job in the world. I get to make people happy every day.”

“Men are not born to rot in idleness, but to be employed in works of magnificence and excellence.”

“Play, that you may be serious.”

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework.”

“You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.”

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”

“When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes, it is not a laughing matter.”

“For it is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”

“I’m a firm believer in the theory that people only do their best work when they’re right up against it.”

“Housekeeping ain't no joke.”

“Work is the most fun you can have without laughing.”

“It's a nuisance that we have to work. All the fun things in life are things you don't have to work at.”

“From labour, health; from health, contentment springs.”

“I've been lucky to work with people who are not monsters.”