Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Sand, George

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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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.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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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

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.