Work Quotes

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

Ernest Hemingway

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Samuel Johnson

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Samuel Johnson

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Gerald Barzan

Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.

Fernanda Bartolme

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Ang Lee

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Walter Savage Landor

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Ann Landers

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

W. H. Auden

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

W. H. Auden

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Work is a four letter word!

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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