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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Parkinson's Law

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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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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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

17.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

18.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thomas Carlyle

22.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Proverb

24.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

28.

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.

29.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

30.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

31.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

32.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

Voltaire

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

39.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

41.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

42.

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

43.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

45.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

48.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Johnson, James Weldon