Quotes about work

"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."

Weil, Simone on work   

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."

Wilde, Oscar on work   

"Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do."

Wilde, Oscar on work   

"A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s."

Yankelovitch, Daniel on work   

"Better to burn out than rust out."

Young, Neil on work
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"Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else."

Ashford, Evelyn on work
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"Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty."

Bible on work
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"To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy."

Buckner, Thomas A. on work   

"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."

Comaneci, Nadia on work
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"There is no substitute for hard work."

Edison, Thomas A. on work
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"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M. on work
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"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it."

Garfield, James A. on work   

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."

Gretzky, Wayne on work   

"I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have."

Hayes, Woody on work   

"No one has ever drowned in sweat."

Holtz, Lou on work
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"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."

Hughes, Charles Evans on work
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"Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross."

Kempis, Thomas on work   

"You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind."

Lawrence, D. H. on work   

"Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it."

Lazarus, Charles on work   

"There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself."

LeMond, Greg on work   

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?"

Marquis, Don on work   

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"

McCarthy, Charlie on work   

"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."

Newton, Sir Isaac on work
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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

Reagan, Ronald on work
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"By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free."

Rohn, Jim on work
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"When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work."

Shaw, George Bernard on work   

"I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near."

Thatcher, Margaret on work   

"Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough"

Unknown, Source on work
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"Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work"

Unknown, Source on work
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"The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished."

Unknown, Source on work   

"The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes."

Arnold, Matthew on work   

"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on work   

"The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you."

Mortimer, John on work   

"In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him."

Orwell, George on work   

"The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry."

Vaneigem, Raoul on work   

"That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it."

Wran, Neville Kenneth on work
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"Work is a part of life, not the point of it."

Adams, Sean on work   

"Teamwork: Never Doubt that a small group of thoughtful & committed people can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has over time."

Flanagan, Jerry on work
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"Working hard each day is a party in itself. You network, you get paid to be there and u love what you do. So its like you party everyday."

Jvongard on work   

"This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."

Watts, Alan W. on work