Motivational Quotes

Work

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Work

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Anatole France

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Keller, Helen

12.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Book, William Frederick

17.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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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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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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

30.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

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

Marquis, Don

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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.

Robert Benchley

33.

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

34.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Riley, Pat

37.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

39.

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

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

Keller, Helen

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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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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, French

49.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon