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Quotes About Work

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.
~ Dolly Parton
We can't just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.
~ Dolly Parton
Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin' Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin' They just use your mind and you never get the credit It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it 9 to 5, yeah they got you where they want you There's a better life, and you dream about it, don't you? It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet
~ Dolly Parton
I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
~ Dominic Monaghan
As for the future, the Mirror was not optimistic. 'If the 1980s are as awful as they predict,' it thought, 'the only people working at the end of them will be the experts forecasting unemployment for everyone else.
~ Dominic Sandbrook
I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I'm writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief that this is all there is to it.
~ Don Carpenter
I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.
~ Don Cheadle
The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.
~ Don Cupitt
How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.
~ Don DeLillo
Shortly after I moved to Los Angeles, I was looking for work, and I happened to be invited to Ray's studio and sat in and played on a couple of his demos. I didn't charge him a dime for it. I was on cloud nine to be working in the same room as Ray Charles, one of my huge idols.
~ Don Felder
Ministers should be very wary that they do not bring forth fuel to feed the fears and doubts of weak Christians in their preaching and writing, for it is a great part of their work to arm weak Christians against their fears and weaknesses.
~ Don Kistler
From personal experience, Kenzo knew about the state of racial equality in America. It was sound in theory, but not in practice. It was a glorious dream, but just a dream. It would never work. It had never worked--not anywhere, not anytime in history--and the US was the only country foolish and hypocritical enough to try.
~ Don Lee
We are not here to loll and frolic but to bring in a harvest for God.
~ Don Richardson
I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.
~ Don Winslow
WORK is a four-lettered word, that ends with a "K
~ Donald Allen Kirch
Any fool can cry wolf; to cry sheep is inspired, the work of a subtle, contradancing mind.
~ Donald Barthelme
Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.
~ Donald Barthelme
If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
~ Donald Hall
In his journals Emerson wrote, "To every reproach I know but one answer, namely, to go again to my work. 'But you neglect your relations.' Too true, then I will work the harder. 'But you have no genius.' Yes, then I will work the harder. 'But you have detached yourself from people: you must regain some positive relation.' Yes, I will work the harder.
~ Donald Hall
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
~ H.L. Hunt
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
~ Aesop
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
~ Horace Greeley
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
~ Albert Camus
Everyday I'm Hustlin'.
~ Rick Ross