Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

James M. Barrie

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. 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

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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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

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Riley, Pat

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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 work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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