Work Quotes
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"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live."
-Voltaire
-Voltaire
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."
-Abraham Lincoln
-Abraham Lincoln
"I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."
-Robert Frost
-Robert Frost
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
-Indira Gandhi
-Indira Gandhi
"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results."
-Michael Jordan
-Michael Jordan
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Theodore Roosevelt
"...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work."
-John Ruskin
-John Ruskin
"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."
-Colin Powell
-Colin Powell
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
-Henri Frederic Amiel
-Henri Frederic Amiel
"If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it."
-Sir Philip Sidney
-Sir Philip Sidney
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
-Bertrand Russell
-Bertrand Russell
"Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt."
-Sandra Boynton
-Sandra Boynton
"If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."
-Ogden Nash
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