Work Quotes

The daily grind, the creative struggle, and why what we do matters more than we think.

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"Every woman should have the means to earn her own bread."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"I have always noticed that those who work hardest are those who suffer most."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The courtroom is where justice lives or dies by our actions."
Thurgood Marshall
"The courtroom is where the abstract becomes concrete, where principles become protection."
Thurgood Marshall
"Your life's work should be a reflection of your deepest convictions."
Thurgood Marshall
"I find that the harder I work, the more I have faith."
Thomas Jefferson
"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
Thomas Jefferson
"The most important thing in life is to choose a profession you love."
Thomas Jefferson
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"The condition of the slave is simply made the condition of the laboring poor."
Frederick Douglass
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"Men may not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
Frederick Douglass
"Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns. No man could head me then."
Sojourner Truth
"Whatever the Lord has made us to do, let us do it well."
Sojourner Truth
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"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."
Booker T. Washington
B
"There is no escape—man can only advance by labouring, by working faithfully and honestly."
Booker T. Washington
B
"The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make a living and sustain himself."
Booker T. Washington
B
"I have not been able to find a substitute for hard work."
Booker T. Washington
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"Education and work are the levers to uplift a people."
W.E.B. Du Bois
W
"Hard work conquers all."
W.E.B. Du Bois
S
"Failure is impossible."
Susan B. Anthony
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"I declare myself satisfied that my efforts have not been in vain."
Susan B. Anthony
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living"
Malcolm X
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"I would always want to be remembered as a person who worked."
Rosa Parks
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"I took the bus every day to do my job."
Rosa Parks
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"I continued to teach and to work."
Rosa Parks
"Lawyers have to be willing to sacrifice the wrong case for the right cause."
Thurgood Marshall
"I did what I could with the power I had."
Thurgood Marshall
"I became a lawyer not to make money but to serve the people of this nation."
Thurgood Marshall
"A lawyer's duty is not to his client alone, but to the cause of justice."
Thurgood Marshall
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"Men may not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
Frederick Douglass
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"A man is worked upon by what he works upon."
Frederick Douglass