Famous Quotes

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau 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 Henry David Thoreau

• "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

• "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

• "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

• "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

• "The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."