Quotes about work

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it."

Ford, Henry on work   

"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Ford, Henry on work
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"I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever."

Foster, Jodie on work   

"My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."

Fox, Jim on work   

"Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction."

Frank, Anne on work
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."

Franklin, Benjamin on work
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"There's no such thing as a free lunch."

Friedman, Milton on work   

"A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork."

Frost, Robert on work   

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office."

Frost, Robert on work
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"Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on work   

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"

Getty, J. Paul on work   

"Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy."

Gibran, Kahlil on work
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"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it."

Gillis, Dobie on work   

"Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement."

Goldsmith, Oliver on work   

"When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery."

Gorky, Maxim on work
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"Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor."

Grant, Ulysses S. on work   

"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."

Grocott, Bruce on work   

"Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process."

Grotowski, Jerzy on work   

"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else."

Halas, George on work   

"My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]"

Hanks, Tom on work   

"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."

Hepburn, Katharine on work
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"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."

Herold, Don on work   

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on work
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"Work your way up or rust your way out."

Holton on work   

"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them."

Horace on work   

"Labor diligently to increase your property."

Horace on work   

"If food were free, why work?"

Horton, Doug on work   

"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."

Hubbard, Elbert on work   

"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do."

Hubbard, Elbert on work   

"We work to become, not to acquire."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"Blessed is that man who has found his work."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success."

Hubbard, L. Ron on work   

"If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are."

Hubbs, George C. on work   

"Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement."

Huxley, Aldous on work   

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Huxley, Aldous on work   

"I am his mistress. His work is his wife."

Javits, Marion on work   

"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart."

Jerome, Jerome K. on work   

"The sharp employ the sharp."

Jerrold, Douglas William on work   

"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."

Johnson, James Weldon on work