Motivational Quotes

Work

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Work

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Blow, Susan

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

10.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

14.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

15.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

16.

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

Hal Lancaster

17.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

19.

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

20.

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

Riley, Pat

21.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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

27.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

31.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

34.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

35.

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

Keller, Helen

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

37.

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

38.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

40.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

41.

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

Marquis, Don

42.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

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

Book, William Frederick

44.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

48.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

49.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

50.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald