Motivational Quotes

Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

- Frank, Anne

Best Quotes about Work

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James 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

11.

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

Riley, Pat

13.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

18.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

19.

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

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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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

24.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

28.

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

29.

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

Voltaire

31.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

34.

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

35.

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

Lennon, John

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

38.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

39.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

40.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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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

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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

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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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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

50.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.