Work and Leisure Quotes
Top 35 Work and Leisure
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!) ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-ted.jpg)
The best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing,
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), American
president, pictured right.
![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-honda.jpg)
Soichiro Honda (1906-91), pictured right,
Honda’s co-founder, agrees:
Real happiness lies in the completion of work, using your own brain and skills.
![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-camus.jpg)
Albert Camus (1913–60), pictured right, the French writer, also comments:
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
No 2![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-schonbrun.jpg)
Before 9/11 my whole world was consumed by Wall Street. I still work hard, but work is no longer my first,
second and third priority.
Ari Schonbrun, 9/11 survivor, pictured right.
![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotespark2.jpg)
Nick Park (1958- ), the English creator
of Wallace and Gromit, pictured right, agrees that work isn’t everything:
I’m married to my work I suppose, although it’s no substitute.
No 3![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-levitt.jpg)
Good work in pursuit of wrong purposes is more damaging than bad work in pursuit of right purposes,
- Theodore (Ted) Levitt, pictured right, The Marketing Imagination (1983)
No 4![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-edison.jpg)
Being busy does not always mean real work.
- Thomas Edison (1847-1931),
pictured right, American inventor
![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-adams-scott.jpg)
Scott Adams, pictured right, in The Dilbert Principle (1996), agrees:
Real Work + Appearance of Work = Total Work.
No 5![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-yeats.jpg)
The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
(from the 1933 poem The Choice)
- W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), pictured right above, Irish poet
No 6![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-rowling.jpg)
Self-worth is about finding out what you do best and working hard at it.
- J.K. Rowling (1965- ), English
writer, pictured right.
No 7![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
(Prince Henry (Hal) in Henry IV
Part 1)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
No 8![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-longfellow.jpg)
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
(from the 1842 poem The Village Blacksmith)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), pictured right above, American poet.
No 9![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-franklin.jpg)
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Benjamin
Franklin (1706-90) American politician, philosopher and inventor, pictured right.
No 10![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-freud.jpg)
All that matters is love and work.
- Sigmund Freud (1856–1939),
Austrian psychiatrist, pictured right.
No 11![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-johnson.jpg)
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
- Samuel Johnson (1709–84), English writer, pictured right.
No 12![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-russell.jpg)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- Bertrand
Russell (1872–1970), English philosopher and mathematician, pictured right.
No 13
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), pictured right, Irish writer.
No 14![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-jobs.jpg)
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
-Steve Jobs (1955- 2011), co-founder of
Apple, pictured right.
No 15![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-matsushita.jpg)
Anything worth doing is worth 100%.
-Kanosuke
Matsushita (1894-1989), founder of Panasonic, pictured right.
Three other business leaders agree:
![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-chanel.jpg)
I have always done everything with passion.
- Coco Chanel (1883-1971),
the French fashion designer (pictured right)
![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-dell.jpg)
Passion should be the fire that drives your life’s
work.
- Michael Dell (1965- ), pictured right, founder of Dell
computers
![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-walton.jpg)
I overcame every single one of my shortcomings by
the sheer passion I brought to my work.
- Sam Walton (1918-1992), pictured right, American
founder Wal-Mart,the world’s biggest retailer
No 16![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-gekko.jpg)
Lunch is for wimps.
- Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, pictured right, in the 1987 film Wall Street) .
No 17![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-marx-groucho.jpg)
How do you make your living? If you call that living...
- Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film and TV star, pictured right.
No 18![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-simpson-homer.jpg)
The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea,
boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
- Homer Simpson, pictured right (in the
American TV series, The Simpsons).
No 19![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-washington-booker.jpg)
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Booker T.
Washington (1856-1915) African American leader, pictured right.
No 20![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-semler.jpg)
Why should the fun, fulfilment, and freedom stop first thing Monday morning and be on hold until Friday
night?
- Ricardo Semler, pictured right, The Seven-Day Weekend
(2003).
No 21![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-gogh.jpg)
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Vincent van Gogh (1853-90),
pictured right, Dutch impressionist painter
Van Gogh also comments:
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
No 22 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-russell.jpg)
Immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous.
- Bertrand
Russell (1872–1970), pictured right, English philosopher and mathematician.
Russell also says:
The morality of work is the morality of slaves.
No 23 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-wilde.jpg)
I've put my genius into my life; I've put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), pictured right, Irish writer.
No 24 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-carnegie-andrew.jpg)
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), pictured
right, American businessman (his motto).
No 25 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-disney.jpg)
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney (1901-1966), pictured right
American film maker.
![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotessnow.jpg)
So a song in one of Disney's films, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, pictured right, says:
Whistle while you work.
No 26 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-benedict.jpg)
To work is to pray.
- St. Benedict (480-547), pictured
right, Italian founder of the Benedictine Order of monks (his motto).
No 27 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-hobbes.jpg)
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
- Thomas
Hobbes (1588-1679), pictured right, English philosopher.
![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-douglass.jpg)
Frederick Douglass (c1818-95),
the American civil rights leader, pictured right, agrees:
Without money, there’s no leisure, without leisure no thought, without thought no progress.
No 28 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-frank.jpg)
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank (1929-1945), pictured right,
Jewish victim of the Holocaust.
No 29 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-einstein.jpg)
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth
shut.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955),
pictured right, German-born American scientist.
No 30 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-schumacher.jpg)
Next to the family, it is work and the relationships established by work that are the true foundations of
society.
-Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacher, pictured right, in
Small is
Beautiful (1973)
No 31![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-allen-woody.jpg)
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it by not dying,
- Woody Allen, American film actor and director in the film Annie Hall (1977), pictured
right.
No 32![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-carnegie-andrew.jpg)
It is a great mistake to think that the man who
works all the time wins the race.
- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919),
pictured right, American businessman.
No 33![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotescow.jpg)
Work is more fun than fun.
- Noel Coward (1898-1973), English actor, singer and writer, pictured
right
No 34 ![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotes-reagan.jpg)
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the
chance?
- Ronald
Reagan (1911-2004), American president, pictured
right.
No 35![Work and Leisure Quotes Work and Leisure Quotes](images/quotesagate.jpg)
A professional is a man who can do his job when he does not feel like it. An amateur is a man who
can't do his job when he does feel like it .
- James Agate (1877-1947), English writer, pictured
right.
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