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Quotes about Work


A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.

H.s.m. Burns

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Louisa May Alcott

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Mary Parker Follet

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Francis Bible

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Michael Korda

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

Wendell Berry

When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.

Rudyard Kipling

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Isaac D'Israeli

When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.

Aristophanes

Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.

Anthony Norvell

A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence; Though frail as dust it meet thine eye, He form'd this gnat who built the sky.

James Montgomery

A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Larry Bird

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose—somehow we win out

Ronald Reagan

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

Francis Bible

''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't have before,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real retarded. It basically consists of `I believe there is a God, and it ain't me.' It's simple, but it works.'' source: Boston Globe.

Steve Earle

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God never made His work for man to mend.

John Dryden

Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Ralph Waldo Euripides

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