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Quotes About Work

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.
~ Paul Farmer
How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.
~ Pope Francis
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
~ Randy Pausch
If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
~ Wendell Berry
I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.
~ Gregory Hines
People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.
~ Ron White
It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
~ Peter O'Toole
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
~ Rupert Brooke
Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.
~ Jack Ma
I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.
~ Bob Gill
Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
~ Cesar Chavez
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.
~ Mikhail Botvinnik
A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.
~ Steve Jobs
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.
~ Edward Elgar
I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
~ Pierre Trudeau
The child will reveal himself through work.
~ Maria Montessori
I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.
~ Benicio Del Toro
Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
~ Salman Khan
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends & have proper rest. Value has a value only if its value is valued.
~ Brian Dyson
Parisian men make love all day and have no time to work; American men work all day and have no time for love.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.
~ John Cage
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.
~ James Prescott Joule