Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

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On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

11.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Marquis, Don

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Ogden Nash

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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 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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

25.

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

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

28.

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

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

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.

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

James M. Barrie

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

48.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Butler, Samuel