Honest Work Quotes

• I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, My Birthday

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• Honest hearts produce honest actions.

  Brigham Young

  Honesty, Heart, Ethics

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Business, Men, Decision

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• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Friendship, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Yesterday, Society

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• Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Being Yourself, Goal, Honest

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• Honest work is much better than a mansion.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honest, Mansions

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.82, 1909.

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• In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Liars, Lying

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• The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Cutting, Men, Unhappy

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. What exactly do teachers even mean by these words? A more useful question is: What is the story the actor was telling in their work? An actor is always telling a story. We all are telling stories, all the time. Story: that is what it is all about.

  Stella Adler

  Teacher, Real, Character

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• In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

  David Knopfler

  Taken, Way, Honest

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• An honest man's the noblest work of God.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Character, Men

  An Essay on Man Epistle 4, l. 248 (1734)

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• Honest work deserves honest pay.

  Hillary Clinton

  Pay, Honest, Deserve

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• All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

  Steve Martin

  Pay, Honest, Week

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

  Robert Burns

  Honesty, Ethics, Being Honest

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Robert Hartley Cromek (1839). “The prose works of Robert Burns: with the notes of Currie and Cromek, and many by the present editor”, p.57

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• Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

  Karen Essex

  Done, Essex, Lovers

  Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor

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• I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Honest, Comic, Used

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• The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Honest, Advantage, Method

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• The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Life Lesson, Teaching

  "Mormon Parenting Secrets: Time-Tested Methods for Raising Exceptional Children". Book by Flint Stephens (p. 20), September 30, 2011.

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• Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's no doubt that if you eliminated all unnecessary surgery, most surgeons would go out of business. They'd have to look for honest work, because the surgeon gets paid when he performs surgery on you, not when you're treated some other way. In pre-paid group practices where surgeons are paid a steady salary not tied to how many operations they perform, hysterectomies and tonsillectomies occur only about one-third as often as in fee-for-service situations.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Thinking, Practice, Play

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• Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a future for your family. It's the idea that being free and independent is a great way to live. That each of us is a unique individual, with great potential. That you own yourself, and that you have the right to decide what's best for you. Americans of all races and creeds built a great and prosperous country with these libertarian ideals. Let's use them to build America's future.

  David Bergland

  Country, Believe, Independent

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• Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Work, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.565, Рипол Классик

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• Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Tools, Tribes

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• No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.

  Michelene Wandor

  Inspirational, Men, Action

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• The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.6, Open Road Media

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