The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure
--Francoise De Motteville
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get
--Frederick Douglass
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night
--Marian Wright Edelman
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
--Mark Twain
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden
--Orson Scott Card
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
--Pearl S. Buck
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
--Rita Mae Brown
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
--Thomas Alva Edison
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
--Vaclav Havel
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill