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Quotes About Work

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.
~ Willie Stargell
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
~ River Phoenix
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
~ Don DeLillo
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
~ Antonin Artaud
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
~ Thomas Huxley
The object of living is work, experience, happiness.
~ Henry Ford
May you always work like you don't need the money; May you always love like you've never been hurt; and May you always dance like there's nobody watching.
~ Jack Canfield
Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.
~ Blake Griffin
I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.
~ Megan Fox
I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.
~ Josh Hartnett
Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.
~ Ellen G. White
It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
~ Joe Pantoliano
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
~ Dave Van Ronk
Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.
~ Nhat Hanh
Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.
~ Zig Ziglar
Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
~ Orison Swett Marden
All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.
~ Jacob Braude
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
~ John Burroughs
Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
~ Justin Theroux
There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
~ Naomi Watts
you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
~ Ken Follett, World Without End
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
~ Bette Davis
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
~ Raymond Queneau