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Work Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
- A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights…
- Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil…
- Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
- The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
- The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is…
- Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
- It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its…
- Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some…
- The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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