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Quotes About Work

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
~ Christopher Lee
My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.
~ Richard Wagner
To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
~ Peter Drucker
My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
~ Raymond Carver
I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.
~ Celia Cruz
Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.
~ Paul Scholes
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
~ Edouard Manet
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
~ Edward Kennedy
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work
~ Harriet Martineau
The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.
~ Steven J Lawson
God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.
~ Kerry Washington
I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.
~ Big Pun
Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.
~ Paul Newman
This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
~ Jose Mujica
I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.
~ Taslima Nasrin
I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.
~ Clarence Thomas
Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.
~ Jose Marti
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.
~ Frances Hesselbein
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
~ Adam Savage