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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘work’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” -Robert Kennedy
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“When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.” -Natalie Gulbis
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“Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.” -Brad Henry
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“I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.” -Grandma Moses
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“I wasn’t really a work conscious type of person.” -Michael Jordan
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“My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.” -Francis of Assisi
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“It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” -Zig Ziglar
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“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” -Satchel Paige
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“Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.” -Wayne Dyer
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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” -Theodore Isaac Rubin
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“If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty – not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they…
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“The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.” -Confucius
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“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?” -Khalil Gibran
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“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” -Nelson Mandela
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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” -Aristotle
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“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” -Saint Augustine
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“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.” -Oscar Wilde
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“It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?” -Ronald Reagan
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“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” -Albert Camus
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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” -Henry Ford
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“When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’” -Lao Tzu
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“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” -Newt Gingrich
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“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.” -Eugene Ionesco
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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” -Mark Twain
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“It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” -Philip Green
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“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” -Rumi
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“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.” -Winston Churchill
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“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.” -William Shakespeare
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“It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.” -Jim Morrison
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“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.” -Helen Keller
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“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” -Mother Teresa
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“Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.” -Sasha Cohen
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” -Emo Philips
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“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” -Maya Angelou
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“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” -J. Paul Getty
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“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” -Bruce Lee
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“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone – many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.” -Richard Nelson Bolles
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“After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.” -Bill Budge
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“It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn’t end. There’s other ways to make money, better jobs.” -Ron Livingston
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“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.” -Abu Bakr
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“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.” -Lawrence Welk
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“Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.” -Dmitri Mendeleev
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“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” -Irvin S. Cobb
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“Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.” -Leigh Steinberg
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“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.” -Charles Kettering
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“Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.” -James Levine
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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” -C. Northcote Parkinson
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“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.” -William Gibson
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“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” -Margaret Fuller
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“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.” -Orson Scott Card
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“It’s easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don’t change, your field changes around you.” -Walter Gilbert
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“I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.” -Walter Wager
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“For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.” -Frank Gehry
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“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” -Arnold J. Toynbee
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“You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.” -Mahalia Jackson
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“Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.” -Ann Richards
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“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.” -Harold S. Geneen
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“Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” -George Halas
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“Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.” -George Sand
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“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” -Harry Golden
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“If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.” -Peter Ustinov
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“By the work one knows the workman.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.” -Stevie Wonder
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“Work isn’t to make money you work to justify life.” -Marc Chagall
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“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” -Ann Landers
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“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” -Henry J. Kaiser
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“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’” -Don Marquis
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“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.” -Evan Esar
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“I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.” -Edgar Winter
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“If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.” -Ogden Nash
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“I’ve learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.” -Louis C. K.
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“And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.” -Donald Norman
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“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.” -Byron Dorgan
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“I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.” -Joseph Campbell
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“All things are difficult before they are easy.” -Thomas Fuller
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“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.” -Al Capp
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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” -Anne Frank
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“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” -Booker T. Washington
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“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” -Sam Ewing
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“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” -Nikola Tesla
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