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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain on work

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green on work

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain on work

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi on work

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle on work

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi on work

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill on work

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs on work

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau on work

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison on work

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin on work

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare on work

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi on work

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 on work

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama on work

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George Carlin on work

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison on work

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller on work

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg on work

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt on work