Motivational Quotes

Work

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Work

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

Baldwin, James

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Book, William Frederick

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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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 dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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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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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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Blow, Susan

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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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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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

31.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor