Famous Quotes

"For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

John Burroughs 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 John Burroughs

• "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

• "If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."

• "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

• "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

• "A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."