Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Hal Lancaster

Best Quotes about Work

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Parkinson, Joseph

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Book, William Frederick

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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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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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

Baldwin, James

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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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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Kemp, Jack

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

Blow, Susan

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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

Carty, Margaret

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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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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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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

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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

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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

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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

Voltaire

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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.