Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Work

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jones, Beverly

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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

David Shore

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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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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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gorky, Maxim