Motivational Quotes

Work

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Work

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

David Shore

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

Syrus, Publilius

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Maurois, Andre

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Proverb

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

Gorky, Maxim

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny