Famous Quotes

"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way."

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Work

More quotes about Work

• "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

  Confucius on Work

• "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

  Thomas A. Edison on Work

• "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

  Robert Frost on Work

• "Nothing will work unless you do."

  Maya Angelou on Work

More quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."

• "Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art."

• "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."

• "Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

• "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."