Famous Quotes

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

Gustave Flaubert on Work

More quotes about Work

• "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

  Confucius on Work

• "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

  Thomas A. Edison on Work

• "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

  Robert Frost on Work

• "Nothing will work unless you do."

  Maya Angelou on Work

More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

• "Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

• "I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

• "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

• "Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

• "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."