Motivational Quotes

Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

- Jean De La Fontaine

Best Quotes about Work

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Voltaire

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

Thatcher, Margaret

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

10.

Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

18.

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

19.

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

Oprah Winfrey

22.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Carty, Margaret

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

30.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

42.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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

Billings, Josh

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.