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Ronald Reagan

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Don Marquis

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Stephen King

I work until beer o'clock.

Henry J. Kaiser

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

George Halas

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

J. Paul Getty

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

William Faulkner

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Sam Ewing

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Albert Camus

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.

Richard Nelson Bolles

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

Richard Nelson Bolles

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

Betty Bender

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

Maya Angelou

Nothing will work unless you do.

Al Capp

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Pearl S. Buck

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Irvin S. Cobb

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Thomas Carlyle

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Thomas A. Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Calvin Coolidge

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Thomas A. Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doin

Gustave Flaubert

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

J. Paul Getty

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Elbert Hubbard

We work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Laurence J. Peter

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Ann Richards

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

David Sarnoff

Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.

Booker T. Washington

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Thomas Carlyle

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

J. Paul Getty

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Henry J. Kaiser

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck ??“ Just steady and earnest and full of pluck. The man who wins is the man who works, Who neither labor nor trouble shirks; Who uses his hands, his h

Sir Theodore Martin

Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength Whether in oxen or in men, we dull The edges of our ploughshares, and in return Our fields turn mean and stingy, underfed, A

Lucretius

When your work speaks for itself, don???t interrupt.

George Orwell

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has att

William Shakespeare

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be wor

Arthur F. Sheldon

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William Carlos Williams

Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.

Strugatsky

When I feel bad, I work. When I have problems, when I'm depressed, when I'm bored with life, I sit down to my work. There are probably other prescriptions, but I don't know them. Or they don't work for me. You want my advice -- here it is Go and work. Thank God that people like you and me need only paper and pencil to work.

Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Alexander Woollcott

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Ogden Nash

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _A Glance Behind the Curtain._

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

William Ernest Hocking

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

Daniel Webster

If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Robert Benchley

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Dean Briggs

Do your work not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake--that little more which is worth all the rest.

Pablo Casals

You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.

Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Joseph Conrad

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Frederick Douglas

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Leonardo DaVinci

Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen.

Isaac Asimov

You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

George Orwell

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has att

Thomas Alva Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Scott McNealy

Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

Thomas A. Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doin

Thomas Crum

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Jim Dietz

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears.

Paul Coffey

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Rudolph Arnheim

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work o

Maxim Gorky

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Elbert Hubbard

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Mario M Cuomo

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Jeff Bezos

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

Ann Richards

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Napoleon Hill

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Albert Einstein

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)

Edward Bedore

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Albert Einstein

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

There's Something About Mary

Pat Healy Really, it's only a side thing for my true passion. Mary And what's that Pat Healy I work with retards. Mary Isn't that a little politically incorrect Pat Healy Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with.

Sam Ewig

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Novalis

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Robert Frost

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

Paul Gruchow

It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

Reynolds Price

What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

B. J. Gupta

Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.

William Faulkner

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Stevie Wonder

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

George Halas

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Maya Angelou

Nothing will work unless you do.

Will Rogers

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

Polish Proverb

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

Robert Orben

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

Mary Kay Ash

Give yourself something to work toward--constantly.

Unknown

All I want to do is to minister to someone, And if I do that, Then the Lord's work in me has been done.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.

Our best work is done when it needs to be.

When 911 won't work .357 will!

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Don't ask me, I only work here.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go.

There is always a way, and it usually doesn't work.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Most of us have been at work for several hours now.

You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.

I've got to sit down and work out where I stand.

My work is done, why wait?

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

It doesn't work, but it looks pretty.

Work is for people who can't

If it doesn't work, it's physics.

You only live once but if you work it right, once is enough.

Work is victory.

Someone is unenthusiastic about your work.

It is broke. It will not work. It does not go.

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

No, I'm from NZ. I only work in Outer Space.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I'm sorry, but a unicorn doesn't work like a mule.

If it's BLUE and doesn't work, it's the Air Force.

If you wish work poorly done, pay in advance.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

If at first you don't succeed, work for Microsoft.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.