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Work

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Work is a four letter word!

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

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

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Proverb

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Gillis, Dobie

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Elbert Hubbard

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance