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Quotes About Work

The life of a Repo Man is always intense.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
~ Seneca the Younger
I call that man idle who might be better employed.
~ Socrates
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.
~ Charles M. Schwab
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.
~ E. W. Howe
I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
~ Gene Tierney
It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There's no doubt that Mexican men and women - full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work - are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
~ Vicente Fox
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
~ Ayn Rand
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
~ Charles Edison
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.
~ Edna Ferber
Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.
~ Glenda Jackson
Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
~ William Graham Sumner
No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.
~ William Levitt
Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
~ Adolphe Thiers
Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
Goal achievement is hero's work.
~ Bill Vaughan
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
~ Tacitus
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
~ Walter Dill Scott