Quotes about Work
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
— Henry Ford
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
— George Bernard Shaw
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
— Elbert Hubbard
There is no happiness that isn't earned.
— Dennis Prager
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
— Thomas a Kempis
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
— JM Coetzee
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.
— Gordon Hinckley
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland
Honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland