You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
—Mahalia Jackson
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
—Earl Wilson
Mine is the horny hand of toil.
—John Singer Sargent
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
—George Bernard Shaw
Working hard feels good. Of course it's exhausting and stressful and causes you to miss a party or two, but at the end of the day it is so rewarding. One of the best feelings in the world is when you know that luck didn't play a role in your success. Doing work eliminates the need for luck.
—Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work—I merely inflict myself upon the public.
—Robert Morley
The fact is, being married to your job for some portion or all of your life, even if it does in some way inhibit romantic prospects, is not necessarily a terrible fate, provided that you are lucky enough to enjoy your work, or the money you earn at it, or the respect it garners you, or the people you do it with.
—Rebecca Traister in All the Single Ladies
There's no sense of satisfaction in something you didn't do anything to achieve.
—Mia Sheridan in Becoming Calder
The work here isn't to figure out why they didn't like you, or who's right and who's wrong. It's to practice being okay with the idea that there are some people who will get you and some people who won't… and that's fine.
—Reshma Saujani in Not Perfect
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
—Evan Esar
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
—Fats Domino
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.
—Adrienne E. Gusoff
He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes.
—James Clerk Maxwell
I think when I work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
—Armand Hammer
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
—André Gide