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Quotes About Work

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
~ John Lennon
You get out of life what you put into it ... simple
~ Tommy Emmanuel
I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!
~ John C. Reilly
True life lies in laughter, love and work.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.
~ Henrietta Mears
A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.
~ Richard Fortey
We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.
~ Wallace Thurman
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
~ Aaron Burr
I don't take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -
~ Audrey Hepburn
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
~ Booker T. Washington
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
~ Orison Swett Marden
What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.
~ Stacy Peralta
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.
~ Drew Barrymore
I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.
~ Tilda Swinton
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!
~ Richard Branson
Labor is life; thought is light.
~ Victor Hugo
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
~ Wendy Beckett
I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.
~ David Cook
Ah, why should life all labor be?
~ Alfred the Great
I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.
~ Steve Nash
Thank you to my family and friends for unwavering support, even when I am insufferably consumed by my work (which is most of the time). I couldn't do it without you.
~ Jennifer Niven
on living and working in Los Angeles] Los Angeles is like a desert. The only thing that exists is the work you do. You have that sense of living a precarious existence.
~ Jenny Agutter