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

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

James M. Barrie

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Frost, Robert

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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

Peter Drucker

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Halas, George

28.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robert Morley

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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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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

35.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

39.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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

Rohn, Jim