Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.

My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

It was a funny thing how time flew when you were working.

One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.