Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Anatole France

Best Quotes about Work

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

10.

No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

11.

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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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

15.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, American

17.

In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

18.

Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

21.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

22.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

23.

What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

24.

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

25.

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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

29.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

30.

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

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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

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

34.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

35.

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

Jones, Beverly

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Michelangelo

38.

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

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

Marquis, Don

40.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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