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Quotes About Work

To serve thy generation this thy fate: "Written in water " swiftly fades thy name But he who loves his kind does first or late A work too great for fame.
~ Mary Clemmer
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
~ Marge Piercy
I went back to being an amateur in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work routine sets in and that's the death of work and life.
~ Ada Bethune
Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
~ J.M. Coetzee
... it's a nice day's work when you make a lot of people smile.
~ Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
~ Ralph Marston
Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!
~ Charles M. Schwab
Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.
~ Brian Tracy
I can't stop working. The health of the nation depends on it.
~ Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.
~ Robert Anthony
And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.
~ Dr. Seuss
There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.
~ Nevil Shute, Ruined City
Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.
~ Daniel Webster
Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
~ Wendell Phillips
Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.
~ Jacob Hacker
Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
Light is the task when many share the toil.
~ Homer
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
~ Condoleezza Rice
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their asses off all year long and get two weeks off! It's incredible.
~ Pankaj Mishra
Of course, it has never paid much.
~ Molly Ivins
One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things
~ Xenphon Ephesius
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
~ James Gandolfini