WORK QUOTES VIII

quotations about work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

ARISTOTLE

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul

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Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.

SOLOMON

Proverbs 22:29


If every man should work at that for which nature fitted him, the cows would be well tended.

FLORIAN

attributed, Day's Collacon


A man who looks for easy work goes to bed tired.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


When the toiler bends and labors till his sweat turns into pearls,
'Tis a nobler decoration than the coronets of earls.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Caelestis"

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It just seems so useless to have to work so hard and nothin' ever really seems to come from it.

TOM PETTY

Here Comes My Girl

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Call no work low that is honest;
Honest toil never degrades.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"Workers"

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Playing games at work is a time-honored tradition. Windows computers come with Minesweeper and Solitaire for a reason, you know. But getting caught by the boss slacking off on company time isn't terribly good for your paycheck. If you're gaming on the clock, you need to be playing something that lets you cover your tracks.

K. THOR JENSEN

"The best games to secretly play at work", Geek, February 5, 2016


We need economy that rewards work, not just wealth.

JOE BIDEN

speech on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020

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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

GEORGE S. CLASON

The Richest Man in Babylon


If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

GEORGE ADE

"The Fable of the Old Fox and the Young Fox", True Bills

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A woman's work is never done.

ENGLISH PROVERB


When master and workmen unite the work is soon done.

WAKATAUKI

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is useless work that darkens the heart.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

THOMAS EDISON

attributed, The Great Book of Best Quotes of All Time

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The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

KARL MARX

"Alienated Labor", Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts


No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

Diaries and Letters


True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.

HERMAN MELVILLE

letter to Catherine G. Lansing, September 5, 1877

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