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Quotes About Work

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.
~ Heber J. Grant
Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
~ Renzo Piano
Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.
~ Gary Cooper
An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.
~ Mo Willems
Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.
~ James J. Hill
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.
~ Thomas Szasz
Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
~ Richard L. Evans
All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.
~ Waris Dirie
The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].
~ John S. Mosby
When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
~ Martin Amis
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
~ Peter Lindbergh
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
~ Robert Peel
I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
~ Andy Griffith
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
~ Anthony Kennedy
I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.
~ Diane Kruger
People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
~ Young Jeezy
For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.
~ James C. Collins
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
~ Zadie Smith
My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.
~ Mark Pincus
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
~ Pat Summitt
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
~ Wilhelm Reich