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Quotes About Work

Being busy does not always mean real work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
~ Chuck Close
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
~ Honore de Balzac
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
The world doesn't owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.
~ Taylor Swift
Do you work in a strip club?
~ Prince Philip
I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.
~ Quentin Blake
The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.
~ Julian Tuwim
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
~ Edward Weston
The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.
~ Paul Washer
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
~ Francis Chan
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.
~ Fernando Botero
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
~ Viola Davis
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
~ Martin Fowler
In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.
~ Mother Meera
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
~ Susan B. Anthony
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
~ Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!
~ Eric Thomas
I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
~ Magic Johnson
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.
~ James O. Fraser