Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Fox, Jim

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

10.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

11.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Jong, Erica

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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.

14.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

15.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

16.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

17.

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

18.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

19.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

21.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

22.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

25.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

26.

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

27.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

29.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

30.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

34.

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

Howard Newton

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

39.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

40.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

41.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

43.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

44.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

45.

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

46.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.