Work Quotes

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This stock-market thing was a great game, but, after all, everybody just can't live on gambling. Somebody has to do some work.

- Will Rogers

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

- Steve Jobs

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You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

- Pat Schroeder

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The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life -- about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

- Parker J. Palmer

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.

- Henry Ward Beecher

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

- Audre Lorde

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

- Rabbi Tarfon

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

- Marilyn Monroe

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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

- Thomas Carlyle

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Nothing will work unless you do.

- John Wooden

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished -- there will always be work you haven't done.

- Julia Child

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The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

- Vincent van Gogh

In spite of oppressors, in spite of false leaders, in spite of labor's own lack of understanding of its needs, the cause of the worker continues onward. Slowly his hours are shortened, giving him leisure to read and to think. Slowly his standard of living rises to include some of the good and beautiful things of the world. Slowly the cause of his children becomes the cause of all. His boy is taken from the breaker, his girl from the mill. Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

- Mother Jones

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

- Susan Sontag