Quotes about work

"Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself."

O'Casey, Sean on work   

"Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold."

Osler, Sir William on work   

"Work is the province of cattle."

Parker, Dorothy on work   

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

Parkinson, C. Northcote on work   

"You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you."

Parkinson, Joseph on work   

"Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available."

Parkinson's Law on work   

"My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work."

Parks, Rosa on work   

"No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius."

Pavlova, Anna on work
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"After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor."

Pennebaker, Don Alan on work   

"Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock."

Picasso, Pablo on work   

"Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours."

Pickens, T. Boone on work   

"Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else."

Prince, Ray on work   

"A dog that barks much is never a good hunter."

Proverb on work   

"No bees, no honey; no work, no money."

Proverb on work   

"Plaster thick, some will stick."

Proverb on work   

"Want is the mother of industry."

Proverb on work   

"The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do."

Proverb, American on work   

"A man grows most tired while standing still."

Proverb, Chinese on work   

"Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want."

Proverb, French on work   

"The work praises the man."

Proverb, Irish on work   

"While a person gets they can never lose."

Proverb, Scottish on work   

"Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left."

Ray, John on work   

"The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others."

Reich, Robert B. on work
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"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."

Reynolds, Sir Joshua on work   

"The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?"

Rogers, Will on work   

"The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed."

Romer, Frank on work   

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on work
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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on work   

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work
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"We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work   

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work
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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on work   

"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

Salk, Dr. Jonas on work
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"Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure."

Sand, George on work   

"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life."

Schwab, Charles M. on work   

"I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing."

Shakarian, David on work   

"Nothing makes a man so selfish as work."

Shaw, George Bernard on work   

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"Get the job done."

Shula, Don on work   

"When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there."

Sinise, Gary on work