Motivational Quotes

Work

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Work

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Peter Drucker

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Oakley, Ann

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

23.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

24.

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

Stengel, Casey

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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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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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Voltaire

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Ford, Henry

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

47.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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Work is a four letter word!

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''