Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
The phrase 'work-life balance' tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.
Patrick Dixon, in Building a Better Business (2005) p. 182
It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life — those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people.
Brutus Hamilton|Brutus Hamilton
Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.
David O. McKay
We work to better ourselves, and the rest of humanity.
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, of Star Trek
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work.
Thomas Szasz|Thomas Szasz
Everything in this world depends on work.
Louis Pasteur
Work purifies your heart.
Swami Vivekananda|Swami Vivekananda
Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.
George S. Clason, American businessman and author. The Richest Man in Balylon
Work to me is a sacred thing.
Margaret Bourke-White|Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), American photographer. Portrait of Myself, Ch. 30 (1963)