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Work is the purposeful application of effort, both physical and mental, towards achieving a specific goal or producing a valuable outcome. It's a fundamental pillar of human life because it provides not only sustenance and security, but also a sense of purpose, connection, and the fulfillment derived from contributing to something larger than oneself.
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# Work & Business
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Context: • Animals, The Flintstones, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (F)
“It's a living.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Heywood, Proverbs, Part I, Chapter II.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Haste makes waste.”
— Unknown
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Context: • The herd of hirelings. (A venal pack.)
• Plautus, Cistellaria, IV. 2. 67.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Plautus, Cistellaria, IV. 2. 67.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Grex venalium.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Do not wash bricks. (Waste your labor).
• Terence, Phormio, I, IV. 9. A Greek proverb.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Terence, Phormio, I, IV. 9. A Greek proverb.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Ne laterum laves.”
— Unknown
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Context: • He who labours, prays.
• Attr. to St. Augustine.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Attr. to St. Augustine.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Qui laborat, orat.”
— Unknown
# Work & Labor
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Context: • William Patten. Expedition into Scotland (1547). In Arber's Reprint of 1880.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Many hands make light work.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Stubborn labor conquers everything.
• Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), I. 145.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), I. 145.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Labor omnia vincit improbus.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself (1963), Ch. 30.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (B)
“Work to me is a sacred thing.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 204.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (B)
“And still be doing, never done.”
— Unknown
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Context: • To carry timber into the wood.
• Horace, Satires, I. 10. 24.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Horace, Satires, I. 10. 24.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“In silvam ligna ferre.”
— Unknown
More Quotes
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Context: • Animals, The Flintstones, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (F)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (F)
“It's a living.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Heywood, Proverbs, Part I, Chapter II.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Haste makes waste.”
— Unknown
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Context: • The herd of hirelings. (A venal pack.)
• Plautus, Cistellaria, IV. 2. 67.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Plautus, Cistellaria, IV. 2. 67.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Grex venalium.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Do not wash bricks. (Waste your labor).
• Terence, Phormio, I, IV. 9. A Greek proverb.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Terence, Phormio, I, IV. 9. A Greek proverb.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Ne laterum laves.”
— Unknown
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Context: • He who labours, prays.
• Attr. to St. Augustine.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Attr. to St. Augustine.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Qui laborat, orat.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Patten. Expedition into Scotland (1547). In Arber's Reprint of 1880.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Many hands make light work.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Stubborn labor conquers everything.
• Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), I. 145.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), I. 145.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Labor omnia vincit improbus.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself (1963), Ch. 30.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (B)
“Work to me is a sacred thing.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto I, line 204.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (B)
“And still be doing, never done.”
— Unknown
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Context: • To carry timber into the wood.
• Horace, Satires, I. 10. 24.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Horace, Satires, I. 10. 24.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“In silvam ligna ferre.”
— Unknown
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Context: • I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.)
• Plautus, Pœnulus, I. 2. 119.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Plautus, Pœnulus, I. 2. 119.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Oleum et operam perdidi.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act IV, scene 2, line 201.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Another lean, unwashed artificer.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part I, Book I, Chapter 4.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Earned with the sweat of my brows.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Unravelling the web of Penelope.
• Cicero, Acad. Quæst, Book IV. 29. 95.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Cicero, Acad. Quæst, Book IV. 29. 95.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Penelopæ telam retexens.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas Dekker, Patient Grissell (1599), Act I, scene 1.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Honest labour bears a lovely face.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard (1758), Preface.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Handle your tools without mittens.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard (1758), Preface.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Plough deep while sluggards sleep.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Periander of Corinth.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Nothing is impossible to industry.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Bishop Cumberland, to one who urged him not to wear himself out with work. See Horne, Sermon on the Duty of Contending for the Truth. Boswell, Tour to the Hebrides, p. 18. Note. Said by George Whitefield, according to Southey, Life of Wesley, II, p. 170. (Ed. 1858).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“Better to wear out than to rust out.”
— Unknown
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Context: • O sweet solace of labors.
• Horace, Carmina, I. 32. 14.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
• Horace, Carmina, I. 32. 14.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Work" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 907-11.)
“O laborum
Dulce lenimen.”
— Unknown
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