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Quotes About Work

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
~ Peter Drucker
It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
~ Peter O'Toole
There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.
~ Phil McGraw
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.
~ Phillips Brooks
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.
~ Pope Paul VI
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.
~ Os Guinness
There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.
~ Oswald Chambers
The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.
~ R. C. Sproul
I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
~ Rajneesh
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I hate the job that I do as an actor. I feel like I'm just of no importance in the world, but sometimes you get a real thrill out of the diversity of the work.
~ Richard Armitage
Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.
~ Richard Branson
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
~ Richard Gere
John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.
~ Richard Widmark
I want to work and be happy.
~ Rickie Lee Jones
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.
~ Robert Breault
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
~ Robert Breault
He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.
~ Robert Ellsberg
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.
~ Robert Grudin
The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.
~ Robert Grudin