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Quotes About Work

. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .
~ Swami Vivekananda
It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.
~ Brother Lawrence
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I want to reach the status of becoming a mogul. And the only way you get there is by work.
~ Kevin Hart
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
~ Michael Faraday
I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
~ Magic Johnson
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
~ David Bowie
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
~ Iain Banks
Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!
~ Swami Vivekananda
I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
~ Alfred Nobel
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
~ Sinclair Lewis
We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.
~ J. D. Hayworth
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
~ William Butler Yeats
Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
~ Sarah Paulson
The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.
~ Leila Janah
Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.
~ Henri Nouwen
Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
~ Maria Montessori
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
~ Charles Wagner
I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.
~ Megan Fox
Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.
~ Richard L. Evans
Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.
~ George S. Clason
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
~ William Osler
Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
~ Valerie Simpson
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.
~ T. Boone Pickens