Motivational Quotes

Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

- Jean De La Fontaine

Best Quotes about Work

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

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

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Bob Ross

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

Kipling, Rudyard

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Carty, Margaret

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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

Voltaire

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Riley, Pat

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Twain, Mark

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

Escher, M. C.

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas