Motivational Quotes

Work

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Richard Bach

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Slick, Grace

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

James M. Barrie

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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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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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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

Halas, George

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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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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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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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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough