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

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

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Michelangelo

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Paterno, Joe

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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 best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Jong, Erica

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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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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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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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Sand, George

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat