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

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

Jong, Erica

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses 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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Rutte, Martin

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Parkinson's Law

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean