Quotes and Sayings About Work
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
-- A. C. Benson -
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
-- Aaliyah -
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
-- Abraham Maslow -
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
-- Abu Bakr -
There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
-- Adah Isaacs MenkenSource : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press
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From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.
-- Adam ClaytonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
-- Adlai E. StevensonSource : "The Educated Citizen". Address at Princeton University, March 22, 1954.
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Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well
-- Agatha Christie -
Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.
-- Agnes Allen -
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
-- Akio Morita -
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
-- Al Capp -
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You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.
-- Al Kaline -
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
-- Alain de Botton -
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
-- Alan Alda -
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.
-- Alan AyckbournSource : Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.215, Grove Press
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
-- Alan Bennett -
There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
-- Alan JacksonSource : Song: Working Class Hero
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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
-- Alan Watts -
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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.
-- Albert Camus