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Quotes About Work

I was early taught to work as well as play. My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
~ Billy Graham
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
~ Azim Premji
The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.
~ Richard Cushing
I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.
~ Ab-Soul
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
~ J. Paul Getty
Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.
~ Jim Elliot
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.
~ Edward Said
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
~ John Calvin
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
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
~ Alain de Botton
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.
~ Joseph Conrad
The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.
~ Leon Gambetta
The devil finds work for idle hands.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
~ Paul Hawken
Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.
~ Andy Griffith
I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.
~ Tony Visconti
Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.
~ Soichiro Honda
Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there.
~ Dwyane Wade
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
~ Herman Melville
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.
~ Charles M. Vest
If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
~ Bill Haywood
It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.
~ David Cassidy