He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I work as my father drank.
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
I am only an average man, but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
How do I work? I grope.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.