Work Quotes

“The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.”

-- Johnny Cash

“I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.”

-- E. O. Wilson

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

-- Frederick Douglass

“You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.”

-- Mary McCarthy

“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”

-- Novalis

“Work alone is noble.”

-- Thomas Carlyle

“Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.”

-- Samuel Butler

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

-- T. S. Eliot

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”

-- Andy Warhol

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

-- Vince Lombardi