Work Quotes

“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.”

-- Michelle Obama

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'”

-- Don Marquis

“The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.”

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

“You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.”

-- Joe E. Lewis

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”

-- Leonardo da Vinci

“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.”

-- George W. Bush

“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”

-- Thomas Aquinas

“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”

-- Arnold J. Toynbee

“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.”

-- Moliere

“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson