Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Voltaire

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

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Devine, Dan

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Voltaire

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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

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Oakley, Ann

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

Don Marquis

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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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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa