Work Quotations
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| Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. | |||
| - Henri Frédéric Amiel | |||
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| All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. | |||
| - Aristotle | |||
| Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. | |||
| - Aristotle | |||
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| Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. | |||
| - Richard Bach | |||
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| Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. | |||
| - Sir James Matthew Barrie | |||
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| Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. | |||
| - Robert Benchley | |||
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| Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? | |||
| - Edgar Bergen | |||
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| Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. | |||
| - Thomas Carlyle | |||
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| Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. | |||
| - Johnny Carson | |||
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| It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. | |||
| - Bette Davis | |||
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| There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities. | |||
| - Michael Dell | |||
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| Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. | |||
| - Peter F. Drucker | |||
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| Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. | |||
| - Thomas Alva Edison | |||
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| Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. | |||
| - Sam Ewing | |||
| It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. | |||
| - Sam Ewing | |||
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| By the work one knows the workmen. | |||
| - Jean de La Fontaine | |||
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| Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. | |||
| - Henry Ford | |||
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| Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. | |||
| - Anatole France | |||
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| Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. | |||
| - Horace | |||
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| Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. | |||
| - Elbert Hubbard | |||
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| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have. | |||
| - Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. | |||
| - Henry J. Kaiser | |||
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| When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' | |||
| - Don Marquis | |||
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| Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. | |||
| - Robert Morley | |||
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| People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. | |||
| - Ogden Nash | |||
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| Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money. | |||
| - William Lyon Phelps | |||
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| Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. | |||
| - Theodore Roosevelt | |||
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| ...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. | |||
| - John Ruskin | |||
| In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. | |||
| - John Ruskin | |||
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| One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. | |||
| - Bertrand Russell | |||
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| A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. | |||
| - Dorothy L. Sayers | |||
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| I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. | |||
| - George Soros | |||
| My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. | |||
| - George Soros | |||
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| Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. | |||
| - Voltaire | |||
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| Desire and a willingness to work make up for a lack of experience. | |||
| - Sam Walton | |||
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| If a man goes to work in the right spirit, work is no hardship. | |||
| - Thomas Watson | |||
| You work the first eight hours of each day for survival. Anything after that is an investment. | |||
| - Thomas Watson | |||