Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Work

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

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 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

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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.

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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

Proverb, French

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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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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 a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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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

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl