Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Work

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Jones, Beverly

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Elbert Hubbard

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robert Benchley

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

Twain, Mark

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Work is a four letter word!

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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

Don Marquis

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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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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Riley, Pat

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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