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

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Jones, Beverly

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

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

Mitchell, Warren

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Rutte, Martin

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

Carty, Margaret

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Keller, Helen

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

Ford, Henry

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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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Blow, Susan

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Fox, Jim

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Don Marquis

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Baldwin, James

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.