Work Quotes

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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- Edward Gibbon

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You don’t push a wall and claim to do a hard work

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato

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Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
- Francis J. Spellman

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A woman’s work is never done.
- Proverb

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Work is the province of cattle.
- Dorothy Parker

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The harder I work the more I live.
- George Bernard Shaw

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We work to become, not to acquire.
- Elbert Hubbard

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
- Mark Twain

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You don’t put robbers to work in a bank.
- American Proverb

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb

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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
- Baltasar Gracian

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When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.
- Portuguese Proverb

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead

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Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
- David Sarnoff

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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Vincent Van Gogh

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The object of living is work, experience, happiness.
- Henry Ford

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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
- Mary Oliver

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Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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Work is no disgrace it is idleness which is a disgrace.
- Hesiod

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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
- Pablo Picasso

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This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
- Eduardo Galeano

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Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
- Oscar Wilde

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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
- Federico Fellini

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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
- Al Capp

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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who labours as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
- Bernard

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome

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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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When a writer talks about his work, he’s talking about a love affair.
- Alfred Kazin

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Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
- Louise Bogan

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
- Blaise Pascal

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The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
- William Osler

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
- Colleen C. Barrett

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A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
- Nadia Boulanger

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The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
- William Carlos Williams

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

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A fair return for their labor so as to have good homes, good clothing, good food.
- Daniel Webster

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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
- William Ellery Channing

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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
- Walter Gropius

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