Motivational Quotes

Work

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Work

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry