There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.

Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.

That's true enough, said Candide, but we must go and work in the garden.

I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.

How do I work? I grope.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then that bridge ought not to be built.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth-don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Work without love is slavery.

In our zeal to make a living we have forgotten to make a life.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with a career on a cold night.