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Quotes About Work

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.
~ Agnes Varda
Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom.
~ Tony Robbins
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
~ Mark Twain
I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.
~ Hilton Als
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.
~ Bertrand Russell
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.
~ Rupert Brooke
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
~ Philip Johnson
A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
~ Morris Fishbein
Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.
~ Unknown
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
~ Milan Kundera
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
~ Ronald Reagan
Remember dream and work to live your dreams. Dance to free your minds and be who you are!
~ Unknown
If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.
~ Chinese proverb
People who hate their jobs often eventually end up hating themselves.
~ Unknown
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself
~ William Ellery Channing
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~ John Burroughs
Self-worth is the sense of one's own value as a person, self-esteem and self-respect. Self-worth is inner power reflected in your work and deed.
~ Anil Sinha
The most important thing you have to realize in your life is knowing your self worth and by knowing your self worth you would finally get to know what you deserve. And then you'll be able to work for what you deserve.
~ Unknown
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
~ Mark Twain
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day
~ George Eliot
Obama supporters are like christmas lights. They all hang out together, half of em don't work, and the ones that do work aren't very bright.
~ Unknown
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
~ Adrienne Rich
He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty
~ Bible