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Quotations
 | When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 20 likes |
 | Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 11 likes |
 | Work is the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes |
 | Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 6 likes |
 | Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 5 likes |
 | One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 5 likes |
 | When you like your work every day is a holiday. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 4 likes |
 | Three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 4 likes |
 | Work is much more fun than fun. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 4 likes |
 | One must work and dare if one really wants to live. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | At your work you must be serious but at life you must be crazy. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 3 likes |
 | Our labor preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 3 likes |
 | I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 3 likes |
 | Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes |
| True life lies in laughter, love and work. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 3 likes |
 | Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 3 likes |
 | Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 3 likes |
 | I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 3 likes |
 | Nothing will work unless you do. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 2 likes |
| Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 2 likes |
 | As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 2 likes |
| We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 2 likes |
| The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 2 likes |
 | The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| The society of organizations is new; only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| We work to become, not to acquire. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 2 likes |
| The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 2 likes |
 | There is no substitute for work. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 2 likes |
 | Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 2 likes |
 | Work is the means of living, but it is not living. |
 | The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work. |
 | One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. |
 | God sells us all things at the price of labor. |
 | Work without love is slavery. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary |
 | Happiness depends on courage and work. |
| Jobs are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences. |
 | Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there. |
 | There is no dignity and there is no real life for the man who works twelve hours a day without knowing why he works. |
 | I have too much energy to work. |
 | Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer – and the trouble is: you believe it. |
 | You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. |
 | Any profession that does not make you forget about work is slavery. |
| Work! It’s good for those who have nothing to do. |
 | There is only one legitimate way, which is work, to make money, and since a lot of people don't want to use it, a lot of misunderstanding results. |
 | There should be a law against doing work one doesn’t like or believe in. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Good workemen are seldome rich. |
 | Man was born to work, like birds to fly. |
 | A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. |
| 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. |
| It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters. |
| Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. |
Personal Stories
| I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 4 likes |
| For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 2 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Pray and Work. Ora et Labora. — Motto of the Benedictine Order 86 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | God wills, man dreams, the work is born. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 3 likes |
 | It is easy to work when the soul is at play. |
Funny Quotes
 | A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B. — Fats Domino, 1928-2017, American singer & pianist 6 likes |
| The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 4 likes |
 | My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 3 likes |
 | I do not like work even when someone else is doing it. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | A large fortune is accumulated by extremely hard work, but [thus] life becomes miserable. Εξ εργασίας θηριώδους ουσίας μεν πλήθος συσσωρεύεται, βίος δε ταλαίπωρος συνίσταται. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | Variety at work, makes the work sweet. Πόνου μεταλλαχθέντος, πόνοι γλυκείς. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet 4 likes |
 | Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. Έργον δ’ ουδέν όνειδος, αεργίη δε τ’ όνειδος. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -311 4 likes |
 | Misers have the fate of the bee working as if they are going to live for ever. Οι φειδωλοί τον της μελίσσης οίτον έχουσιν εργαζόμενοι ως αεί βιωσόμενοι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | God loves to assist the man who works hard. Φιλεί δε τω κάμνοντι συσπεύδειν θεός. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 3 likes |
| Oh handicraft that I hate so much! Ω πολλά μισηθείσα χειρωναξία! — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Prometheus Bound 2 likes |
 | Seek your fortunes by hard work. Τας τύχας εκ των πόνων εράν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | A woman's work is never done. 2 likes |
Special Quotes
 | Work sets you free. Arbeit macht frei. — Inscription on the entrance of various Nazi concentration camps (from the title of a novel by Lorenz Diefenbach, 1873) 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and - SNAP - the job's a game! — from the film Marry Poppins 4 likes |
