Motivational Quotes

Work

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Work

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Gorky, Maxim

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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.

Robert Benchley

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.