WORK QUOTES III

quotations about work

Work quote

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

JOHN DOS PASSOS

Airways Inc

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We are not people who believe only in the survival of the fittest. Work in America is more than a paycheck; it a source of pride, self-reliance and identity.

JOHN MCCAIN

speech, June 3, 2008

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It's all too tempting to assign your over-performing employees the most important tasks; you trust their work will be of the utmost quality, and they can clearly do their job very well. Yet, where do you draw the line? The more duties you allocate to a select few workers could have harmful effects on them, the team or even the company's performance.

LIZZI HART

"10 reasons why giving your best employee more work is a terrible idea", Business Insider, February 10, 2016


As technology advances and employees demand greater flexibility and mobility, the word "work" will continue to take on new and different meanings. Ultimately, though, from the perspective of employers, the goal will stay the same: to bring people, content and technology together in a single, unified content-experience platform that promotes effective team collaboration and improves business performance.

PAIGE O'NEILL

"The definition of work is shifting", Network World, March 13, 2017


No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Notes on Virginia

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What is earned with hard labor is eaten with pleasure.

CHINESE PROVERB

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

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

MICHELLE OBAMA

speech at Democratic National Convention, September 4, 2012

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Work is for people who don't know how to fish.

ANONYMOUS

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There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

JEROME K. JEROME

Three Men in a Boat

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Going to work is the vacation.... I have so much respect for women who stay at home and take care of the children, 'cause I find it to be incredibly challenging and the harder job, make no mistake about it.

JUNE DIANE RAPHAEL

"June Diane Raphael Says Going to Work Is the Vacation", People, March 31, 2017


In this society we live in now, our work is a 24/7 reality for most people.

DAWN WHITE

"Lower Allen Township Police begin 90-day trial of 12-hour work days", abc27, April 1, 2017


The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

KARL MARX

"Alienated Labor", Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts


Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity,
And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways;
While other animals unactive range,
And of their doings God takes no account.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

My Heart Laid Bare


Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Notebooks


The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

HORACE

Satires

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Online and on-demand work is changing the way an increasingly large chunk of the population puts money in their pockets, opening up new opportunities for professionals to work from home or connect with local opportunities using an app. Businesses benefit by being able to outsource work to people across the world and employees benefit by being able to make money on their own terms.

CYNTHIA JOHNSON

"8 Companies Shaping the Future of the Booming Online Work Economy", Entrepreneur, February 10, 2016