526 Quotes About Work-ethic





  • Author Joseph Conrad
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    No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work— no man does— but I like what is in the work,— the chance to find yourself. Your own reality— for yourself, not for others— what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

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  • Author Alexander McCall Smith
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    She had always worked as hard as she could, at everything she did, and she simply did not understand how anybody could do otherwise. How could they sit there, as they did, and stare into the space in front of their desks when they could be adding up figures or checking the drivers' returns?

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