Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
—David Shore
Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.
—Diane Ackerman
Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.
—Don Marquis
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Edgar Bergen
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
—Elbert Hubbard
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
—Eric Hoffer
Our great weariness comes from work not done.
—Hal Lancaster
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
—Helen Keller
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
—Henri Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
—Henri-Frederic Amiel
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
—Henry David Thoreau
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
—Henry J. Kaiser
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
—Horace
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
—Howard Newton