Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Work

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Blow, Susan

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

19.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Book, William Frederick

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ogden Nash

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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

Oakley, Ann

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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.

John Ruskin

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson