Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Work

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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

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

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ashford, Evelyn

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

22.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

23.

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruskin, John

30.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

31.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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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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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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 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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

42.

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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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

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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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