History Quote by George Watson

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the…

— Frederick Sanger

“Even in the richer countries, what happens at work can make people fulfilled, bored, valued or stressed. At the deepest level work shapes who…

— Ha-Joon Chang

If you create good work, people should be interested.

— Visionist

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a…

— Daniel H. Pink

People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.

— Jillian Mayer

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

— Edmund Burke

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as…

— William J. Clinton

Every time you consider a job, you have to check in with your inner compass and say, ‘Does this fit in with how I…

— Tom Hiddleston

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act…

— Anne Truitt

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

— Claude-Michel Schonberg

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

— Leo Tolstoy