Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Gillis, Dobie

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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

Blow, Susan

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Herbert, George

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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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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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Riley, Pat

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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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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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Voltaire

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Halas, George

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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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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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Riley, Pat

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.