Work Quotes And Sayings

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“I don’t like work–no man does–but I like what is in the work–the chance to find yourself. Your own reality–for yourself not for others–what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means”
– Joseph Conrad

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work”
– Aristotle

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious”
– John Irving

“Don’t mistake activity with achievement”
– John Wooden

“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life”
– Confucius

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity”
– George Carlin

“Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work”
– Mary Oliver

“It was ironic, really – you want to die because you can’t be bothered to go on living – but then you’re expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops. And if you’ve managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work”
– Marian Keyes

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things”
– Plato

“Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you’ve heard of the concept. It’s called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory”
– Jim Butcher

“I don’t really like coffee, she said, but I don’t really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.”
– Brian Andreas

“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others”
– Amelia Earhart

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important”
– Bertrand Russell

“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone”
– Emily Brontë

“When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living”
– Helen Rowland

“You should not confuse your career with your life”
– Dave Barry

“I don’t like customer service, because I don’t believe the customer should have to pay and help out too”
– Jarod Kintz

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own”
– Harry S. Truman

“For me, it’s not about winning an award. It’s also about not even being nominated”
– Jarod Kintz

“I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance”
– Ronald Reagan

“I don’t want to work a 9-5 job, because 20 hours a day is just too much”
– Jarod Kintz

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger”
– Simone de Beauvoir

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play”
– Alan Wilson Watts

“Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him”
– Joyce Meyer

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Each man had only one genuine vocation – to find the way to himself….His task was to discover his own destiny – not an arbitrary one – and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness”
– Hermann Hesse

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