Quotes about work

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Well done is better than well said.

We must cultivate our garden.

The best is the enemy of the good.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress.

You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Work is love made visible.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity… even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.