Quote by Jonathan Swift

“We live to work. Man was made to move. Without work we shall grow old quickly.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain.…

— Karen Maezen Miller

“There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The idea is to be detached from the fruits of our labors, which means that we do things simply for the act of doing…

— Suzanne Morrison

“You see, the work of maintaining your life with your own skills was never counted in hours. The days were long and arduous, but…

— Elizabeth Mckenzie

“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede…

— Steven Laffoley

“servants, in the extravagance of their leisure, were profaning the tables.  The heat was insufferable and I thought with joy of the morrow, of…

— Henry James

“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb poles and…

— George Blake

“The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them.”

— Amelia Barr

“We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.”

— Terry Hayes

“Thought I wanted overnight success, until I achieved it through hard work and the refusal to back down! What you earn, you keep.”

— A. M. Hudson