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Work Quotes


These are some of the best 'Work' quotations and sayings.


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A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A nation's welfare depends on its ability to master the world; that on its power of work; and that on its power of thought.

A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

All one's work might have been better done; but this is the sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain for ever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of things as They Are!


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