Motivational Quotes

Work

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.

- John Ruskin

Best Quotes about Work

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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

Robert Morley

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

10.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

11.

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

12.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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 average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

27.

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

31.

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

Butterworth, Eric

32.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

38.

White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

39.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

40.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

41.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

42.

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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning