“When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.”
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Ogden Nash
2 quotes“If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.”
Richard Bach
2 quotes“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”
Laurence Peter
2 quotes“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
Malcolm Gladwell
2 quotes“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”
Thomas Edison
2 quotes“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Charles Baudelaire
2 quotes“Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
Thomas Carlyle
2 quotes“Give me a man who sings at his work.”
John Maxwell
1 quote“Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.”
Molière
1 quote“I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same.”
Dolly Parton
1 quote“A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.”
Walt Disney
1 quote“You reach a point where you don't work for money.”
John Steinbeck
1 quote“The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is ma...”