“My husband, did the great work of the war, but Grant, had all the pecuniary compensation.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.”— Niklaus Wirth, en.wikiquote.org
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas if I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.”— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com
“Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.”— Anton Chekhov, en.wikiquote.org
“You don't need brains to carry a handbarrow. That's why the foreman had put these ex-bosses on the job.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, davar.net
“There are two ends to a stick, and there's more than one way of working. If it's for a human being—make sure and do it properly. If it's for the big man—just make it look good.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, davar.net
“People have wondered where the seat of original sin is; I think it 's in the stomach. A man eats too much and neglects exercise, and the Devil has him all his own way, and the little imps, with their long black fingers, play on his nerves like a piano. Never overwork either body or mind, boys. All t…”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, o…”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For heaven and the future´s sakes.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.org
“You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com
“My Uncle always said "Do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life! He did heroin.”— thepriceofaslave, reddit.com
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com