Quotes about work

"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."

Allen, James on work
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"Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater."

Angelou, Maya on work
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"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first."

Atkinson, Brooks on work
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"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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it."

Auden, W. H. on work   

"A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do."

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"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

Austen, Jane on work
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"Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun."

Barrett, Colleen C. on work
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"Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want."

Baruch, Bernard M. on work   

"What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?"

Barzan, Gerald on work   

"Inspiration comes of working every day."

Baudelaire, Charles on work
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"Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!"

Beecher, Henry Ward on work   

"In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot."

Beecher, Henry Ward on work   

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."

Benchley, Robert on work
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"What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men."

Bhagavad Gita on work
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"I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work."

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"In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread."

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"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]"

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"Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first."

Billings, Josh on work   

"To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do."

Blow, Susan on work   

"A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it."

Book, William Frederick on work   

"The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned."

Book, William Frederick on work
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"When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight."

Bridge, Michael on work   

"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."

Brodsky, Joseph on work
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"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."

Bronte, Emily on work   

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"We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living."

Brown, Dean Charles R. on work
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"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on work   

"Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!"

Bunuel, Luis on work   

"Beauty is also to be found in a day's work."

Burns, Mamie Sypert on work   

"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."

Butler, Samuel on work   

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

Butler, Samuel on work
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"Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled."

Butterworth, Eric on work   

"The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief."

Caddy, Eileen on work
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"It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously."

Cahill, Michael C. on work   

"Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened."

Camus, Albert on work   

"A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man."

Carlyle, Thomas on work   

"Every noble work is at first impossible."

Carlyle, Thomas on work
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"Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at."

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"Work alone is noble."

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"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."

Carnegie, Andrew on work   

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

Carnegie, Dale on work
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