Quotes about work

"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses."

Cato The Elder on work   

"Every man is the son of his own works."

Cervantes, Miguel De on work   

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"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."

Cervantes, Miguel De on work   

"I believe that good things come to those who work."

Chamberlain, Wilt on work   

"Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass."

Charette, Fred on work   

"Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was."

Chaucer, Geoffrey on work   

"The more one works, the more willing one is to work."

Chesterfield, Lord on work   

"Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead."

Chrysosatom, St. John on work   

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."

Cleese, John on work   

"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work."

Cohen, Leonard on work   

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

Confucius on work
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"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know."

Conrad, Joseph on work   

"A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing."

Conrad, Joseph on work   

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"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."

Coolidge, Calvin on work   

"Work is more fun than fun."

Coward, Noel on work
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"It is better to wear out than to rust out."

Cumberland, Richard on work   

"I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one."

Darrow, Clarence on work   

"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."

Davis, Bette on work   

"To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

Davis, Bette on work   

"Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life."

Delacroix, Eugene on work   

"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on work
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"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on work   

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"Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen."

Drucker, Peter F. on work   

"The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem."

Drucker, Peter F. on work   

"I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job."

Ecker, Frederick Hudson on work
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"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

Edison, Thomas A. on work
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"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."

Edison, Thomas A. on work
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"Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on work   

"How do I work? I grope."

Einstein, Albert on work
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"See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on work   

"We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on work   

"Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on work   

"Work is victory."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on work   

"My work is a game -- a very serious game."

Escher, M. C. on work   

"No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure."

Farrar, Frederick on work   

"One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy."

Faulkner, William on work   

"There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work."

Fitch, Fred W. on work   

"Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement."

Fleyer, Paul J. on work
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"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."

Forbes, B. C. on work
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"If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on work
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