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Work Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
- Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of…
- Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
- He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
- Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been…
- Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the…
- My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
- Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
- For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
- One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.…
- This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal…
- I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- 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 work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach