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| There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. | | Henry Ford | |
| There is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage | | Bible | |
| Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. | | Albert Einstein | |
| To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard | | Carl Sandburg | |
| Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink | | Rudyard Kipling | |
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| What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum | | Abraham Maslow | |
| What I hope to see for labor is the people who work in factories own the factories | | Clarence Darrow | |
| When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman | | Jean de la Bruyere | |
| When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. | | Tennessee Williams | |
| When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. | | John Ruskin | |
| Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it! | | Bill Watterson | |
| Why should I have to work for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it! | | Bill Watterson | |
| Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. | | Albert Camus | |
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| Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. | | Mark Twain | |
| Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. | | Pablo Picasso | |
| Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. | | Laurence J. Peter | |
| Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. | | Kahlil Gibran | |