Motivational Quotes

Work

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

- Cohen, Leonard

Best Quotes about Work

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

Twain, Mark

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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Sand, George

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Jong, Erica

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marquis, Don

18.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

25.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

27.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

31.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

32.

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

Ogden Nash

33.

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

Michelangelo

34.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Herbert, George

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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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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

49.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don