Famous Work Quotes

Action expresses priorities.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

He has gained every point who has combined the useful with the pleasant.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Well done is better than well said.

Let us cultivate our garden.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Work is love made visible.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.