The laborer is worthy of his hire. (Quote by - Bible)

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie. (Quote by - George Herbert)

If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim, Man's noblest works must have one common end, And nothing crown the tablet of his name. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)

Rest is the sweet sauce of labour. (Quote by - Plutarch)

Women and men have to fight together to change society-and both will benefit. (Quote by - Muriel Fox)

I am only an average man, but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)

If you want a work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. (Quote by - Nadia Comaneci)

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train. (Quote by - Tracy Caulkins)

There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. (Quote by - Pearl Bailey)

The day is short, the labor long, the workers are idle, and reward is great, and the Master is urgent. (Quote by - Aboth, 2:15)

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done. (Quote by - Arland Gilbert)

The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done. (Quote by - Berton Braley)

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

My whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me. (Quote by - Queen Elizabeth II)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Quote by - St. John Honeywood)

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Quote by - Bible)

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)

Passion is never enough; neither is skill. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)

Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination. (Quote by - Alice Koller)