Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Work

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

James M. Barrie

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Proverb, French

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Don Marquis

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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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

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

Ford, Henry

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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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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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bob Ross

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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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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

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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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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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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

48.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha