The repository contains 66 quotes in the category “Work.”
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If the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would mave made them with mouths only and no hands.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
1874 — 1963
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
1874 — 1963
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915
All our lives we sweat and save, building for a shallow grave.
Jim Morrison
1943 — 1971
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle
1908 — 2002
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
1856 — 1915
One of the saddest things is that the thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat for eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours a day. All you can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner
1888 — 1965
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
1908 — 2004
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Milton Friedman
1912 — 2006
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
Sir William Osler
1849 — 1919
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Rudyard Kipling
1865 — 1936
All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
Steve Martin
1945 —
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Walter Bagehot
1826 — 1877
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando
1924 — 2004
On being a Major League Baseball umpire:
This must be the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who’s doing it.
Nestor Chylak
1922 — 1982
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charles O. Finley
1918 — 1996
Doing nothing: That’s hard work.
John Fowles
1926 — 2005
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