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"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."

W. Somerset Maugham on Work

More quotes about Work

  • "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

    Confucius on Work

  • "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work

  • "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

    Thomas A. Edison on Work

  • "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

    Robert Frost on Work

  • "Nothing will work unless you do."

    Maya Angelou on Work

More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

  • "Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

  • "What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

  • "Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

  • "The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."

  • "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

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