Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

- Ecker, Frederick Hudson

Best Quotes about Work

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Butler, Samuel

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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

Frost, Robert

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

24.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Voltaire

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

39.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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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