Motivational Quotes

Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Oakley, Ann

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Proverb, French

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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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

21.

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

Maurois, Andre

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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 consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Angelou, Maya

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

Parkinson's Law

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.