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| A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. | | Fred Allen | |
| A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active | | Bertrand Russell | |
| A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. | | Albert Camus | |
| A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. | | W. H. Auden | |
| Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. | | William Cowper | |
| Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. | | John Burroughs | |
| But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. | | Henry Ford | |
| Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. | | Walt Disney | |
| Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before unknown men | | Bible | |
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| Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him. | | Samuel Butler | |
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| Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off; I don't care for anything else; that is to say, the pleasure in something else ceases at once, and I become melancholy when I cannot go on with my work. I feel then as the weaver does wh | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | | Thomas Alva Edison | |
| Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? | | Jean Paul Getty | |
| Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox. | | Jean Renoir | |
| Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance | | Samuel Johnson | |
