Motivational Quotes

Work

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Work

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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

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

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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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

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

James M. Barrie

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael 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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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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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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

David Shore

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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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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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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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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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

Jones, Beverly

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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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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel