Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

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

Peter Drucker

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

17.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

18.

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

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

27.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Voltaire

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

40.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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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

44.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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