Work Quotes
The daily grind, the creative struggle, and why what we do matters more than we think.
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"There is evidence by every form of study that normal man is lazy."John Steinbeck
"The profession of being a writer is a very strange profession."John Steinbeck
"Once writing has become your habit, you write every day."Ernest Hemingway
"The good earth is rich if men know how to work it."Ernest Hemingway
"Laziness and poverty are cousins."Ernest Hemingway
"The discipline of the writer is to learn to write as well as he can and to mean something that he says so that it can be believed."Ernest Hemingway
"Work is the only thing that makes life bearable."Theodore Dreiser
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."Theodore Dreiser
"Writing is work. Just because you have paper and a pen doesn't mean you're a writer."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."Pearl S. Buck
"Hard work counts, but smart work counts more."Pearl S. Buck
"The only way to get anything out of life is to work hard."Edith Wharton
"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way to sell goods, particularly products that have no merit."Sinclair Lewis
"A man may work from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done."Sinclair Lewis
"The man who is compelled to work for a man who despises him must have a curious admixture of meekness and impudence."Sinclair Lewis
"The businessman is the one man who can never afford to relax his vigilance."Sinclair Lewis
"A man who cannot relax is a man who cannot truly work."Sinclair Lewis
"Hemingway noted that working hard at your craft is the only real solution."Ernest Hemingway
"You must be prepared to work hard in silence."Ernest Hemingway
"Hemingway said that inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just work."Ernest Hemingway
"The good earth is rich, and if men would work together, plenty for everyone."John Steinbeck
"Writing is effort, and effort is pain, but from pain comes growth."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Work is the means by which we transform our dreams into reality."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Work is the master of all things, the sculptor of character, the forge of destiny."Theodore Dreiser
"Slavery takes many forms, and economic necessity is perhaps the cruelest."Theodore Dreiser
"A woman's business is never done, but a man's may be."Edith Wharton
"The arts are a business like any other if you treat them that way."Edith Wharton
"The world is full of people making a living, but very few are making a difference."Edith Wharton
"The hand that follows intellect can achieve."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"All labor is noble, and all honest work has dignity."Harriet Beecher Stowe