Motivational Quotes

Work

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Work

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Marquis, Don

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Keller, Helen

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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 history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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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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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Weil, Simone

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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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

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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