Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Work

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Peter Drucker

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

Bible

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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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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Parkinson's Law