Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is more fun than fun.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Work

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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

Proverb, French

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Milsap, Ronnie

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

11.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

12.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

13.

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

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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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.

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

Richard Bach

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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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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 really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

30.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

31.

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

Anatole France

32.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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