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Quotes on Work

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Author: Michael Johnson

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Author: Sigmund Freud

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
Author: Unknown

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Author: Leonardo Da Vinci

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Author: Lido Anthony "Lee" Lacocca

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Author: Edward Harriman

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Author: Jim Fox

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Author: William Adams

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Author: Indira Nehru Gandhi

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before.
Author: Jacob Riis

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
Author: Betty Bender

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Author: Maxim Gorky

When you begin to coast, you know you're on the downgrade.
Author: Unknown

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Author: Henry John Kaiser

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Author: Oscar Wilde

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like nobody's watching.
Submitted by Jessica Brown
Author: Anonymous

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Author: Richard Bach

You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.
Author: Pablo Casals

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Author: Irish proverb

 

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