Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Henry David Thoreau

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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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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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Voltaire

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

Lennon, John

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Plaster thick, some will stick.