Quotes in work

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

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

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.