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Work Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them…
- Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave…
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much used in the…
- The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at…
- I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
- Handle your tools without mittens.
- A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
- A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
- All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the…
- Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
- Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
- The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and…
- Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes
- Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
- Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
- Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave…
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson