Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation — except work for it.
Work Quotes
On this page Carlyle is first by count, followed by Shakespeare, Lincoln, Karl Marx and Albert Pike. The line most worth keeping is Mark Twain’s from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876): work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Emerson’s May-Day and Other Pieces (1867) has a good one on the crowded hour, and Woody Allen’s joke about immortality through not dying is here as well.
Three entries are flagged. “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours” is credited to Oscar Wilde and marked misattributed. Two sayings credited to Publilius Syrus, about doing nothing both hastily and prudently and about the man who loves labour always having something to do, are disputed.
Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.
There’s always work that must be done...Life’s so simple when we simply work to make it fun.
Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.
Plan in the morning the work of the day, and reflect in the evening on what has been done.
To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.