Famous Quotes about Work - 1

Thomas Alva Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Thomas Alva Edison

There is no substitute for hard work.

Henry Ford

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

H L Mencken

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Robert Frost

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Franklin Pierce Adams

A first edition of his work is a rarity but a second is rarer still.

Arthur Baer

He had reasons for not working; he said your body was only a machine and he was no mechanic.

Clarence Darrow

I am a friend of the working-man, and I would rather be his friend than be one.