Motivational Quotes

Work

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

- Jones, Beverly

Best Quotes about Work

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Ruskin, John

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

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

11.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

12.

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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Marquis, Don

18.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

20.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

29.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

33.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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.

36.

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

37.

Work is a four letter word!

38.

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

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry