“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Work takes up most of your waking hours, which is why it matters whether you find meaning in it. These quotes cover careers, hustle, burnout, passion, and the search for a balance between making a living and making a life.
“I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.”
“I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.”
“It will work. I am a marketing genius.”
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
“The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.”
“We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.”
“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
“We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.”
“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.”
“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.”
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
“I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.”
“Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'”
“I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.”