Motivational Quotes

Work

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb, French

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

13.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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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

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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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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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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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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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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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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

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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

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Don Marquis

43.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance