work Quotes

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”

― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

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“Do the thing you’re good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

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“The chief one was to remember that camping was a good way to find out people’s characters. Those who were selfish showed it very soon, in that they wanted the best bed or the best food and did not want to do their share of the work.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Whether you’re doing a bicep curl in a chilly gym or talking to world leaders, there are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

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