Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is more fun than fun.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Work

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

12.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

13.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

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

James M. Barrie

15.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

17.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

18.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

19.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

26.

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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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

29.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

30.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

31.

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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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

35.

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.

36.

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

Dodge, B.

37.

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

Proverb, American

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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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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.

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

Halas, George

43.

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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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Oprah Winfrey

48.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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]

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