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Work Quotes by Mark Twain
- The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will…
- The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
- A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won…
- The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets…
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede…
- God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.
- No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
- You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder…
- Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and…
- I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
- A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it;…
- The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you…
- Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have…
- Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any…
- I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
- He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
- What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.
- There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
- Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from…
More Work Quotes
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- 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
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon