work Quotes

“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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“Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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“Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful...”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly...”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work, and helps make something of the world.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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“Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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“our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

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