Work

(51 votes)   All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

John Bay

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(51 votes)   Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

Source Unknown

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(51 votes)   In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(51 votes)   It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(51 votes)   The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Frank Romer

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(50 votes)   When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running.

Mary Ingraham Bunting

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(50 votes)   Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Ray Prince

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(50 votes)   Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

B. C. Forbes
1880-1954, American Publisher

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(49 votes)   A man grows most tired while standing still.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(49 votes)   Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Leonard Cohen
1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer

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(49 votes)   For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

Nancy Parker Brummett

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(49 votes)   I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Frederick Hudson Ecker
American Business Executive, Chairman of Metropolitan Life

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(49 votes)   I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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(49 votes)   Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Colleen C. Barrett

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(48 votes)   A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew?

Robert Charles Benchley

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