Henry David Thoreau

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.