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Quotes About Work

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
~ Arthur Christopher Benson
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
~ Mark Twain
All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
~ Henry Ward Beecher
She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.
~ Donna Summer
Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Know how blessed you are to be able to work this hard!
~ Chalene Johnson
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
~ Ruth Behar
Labor is the true standard of value.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.
~ Zoe Saldana
Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.
~ Master P
To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
~ Wendell Berry
I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.
~ Kathy Ireland
I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.
~ Helen Thomas
To be a part of a show that makes that not feel demanding and makes it feel natural and makes you want to go to work, every day, and be excited about it, from what I hear, that's pretty rare.
~ Shelley Hennig
It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.
~ John Henry Patterson
I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
~ Gregor Strasser
Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction
~ Kathy Ireland
I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.
~ Pharrell Williams
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
~ William Eggleston
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
~ Guy Debord
Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.
~ Anne Frank
It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.
~ Aldus Manutius