WORK QUOTES

quotations about work

Work quote

I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

DONALD TRUMP

Think Big

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There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

HORACE MANN

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man

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If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

JACK CANFIELD

The Success Principles

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

RICHARD BACH

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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Honest labour bears a lovely face.

THOMAS DEKKER

Patient Grissell

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Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND

"Work and Play", Complete Works

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Work without love is slavery.

MOTHER TERESA

Where There Is Love, There Is God

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Work is sacred. It is not just a way to earn money or gain power, though it may result in both. Work is a vehicle for testing out our gifts and talents and using them to explore their meaning. Work is a process of self-expression, trial and error learning, creativity, and risk taking. No matter what kind of job we have, work always has these potentials. Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often these opportunities come from the "how" of the ways we do our work rather than the "what" of the work itself. Regardless of what our work is, we can enjoy it. And it is most enjoyable when balanced with other aspects of our life and not a tyrant.

ANNE WILSON SCHAEF

attributed, "Thank God It's Monday and the End of Work-Life Balance", Huffington Post, March 21, 2017


Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

VOLTAIRE

Candide

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How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Deserted Village

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Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

ZIG ZIGLAR

See You at the Top

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The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

HENRY FORD

My Life and Work

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There's nothing like a work crush to make you excited to go to the office. You get butterflies in your stomach whenever you cross paths in the hallway. Your heart thumps when your crush approaches your desk to ask you if you know how the printer works.

L. V. ANDERSON

"Workplace romances can be thrilling--or more painful that you could imagine", Slate, February 10, 2016


Work is the best thing to make us love life.

ERNEST RENAN

attributed, Day's Collacon


A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Chartism

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If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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Life without work is unworthy of being lived.

EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH

Life and Letters of Edward Bickersteth

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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

O. HENRY

"The Social Triangle"

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Historically, the Protestant work ethic embodied economic reward for dedication, discipline and diligence at work, not appreciating that enjoyment of work was intrinsic for both physical and mental wellbeing. Today the promise of pecuniary profit seems the only reason many people work at all.

PAULYNE POGORELSKE

"Faith: work is not a dirty word", The Age, March 25, 2017


It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Business Quotations

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