Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is more fun than fun.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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.

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.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Twain, Mark

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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

Riley, Pat

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Voltaire

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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

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Chrysosatom, St. John