Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

David Shore

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

10.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

11.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

12.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

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

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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

15.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

16.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

17.

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

18.

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

Book, William Frederick

19.

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

Holtz, Lou

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

21.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

22.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

23.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

24.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

25.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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

27.

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

Maurois, Andre

28.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Proverb, French

34.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

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

Jong, Erica

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

38.

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

39.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

40.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Work is a four letter word!

43.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Sand, George

45.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

46.

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

47.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

48.

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

49.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

50.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire