Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Work

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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

Barack Obama

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

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

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

Keller, Helen

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

14.

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

Parkinson's Law

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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

16.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

18.

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Foster, Jodie

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

25.

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

26.

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

27.

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

28.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

29.

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

Jong, Erica

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

31.

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

Escher, M. C.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

34.

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

Voltaire

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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

Twain, Mark

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

48.

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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

50.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata