Motivational Quotes

Work

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Work

Work is a four letter word!

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Slick, Grace

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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

Smith, Dr. Walter

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

James M. Barrie

11.

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

Dodge, B.

12.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

13.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

14.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

15.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

17.

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

18.

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

19.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

20.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

21.

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

Rutte, Martin

22.

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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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Thomas Carlyle

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

29.

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

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

31.

Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

32.

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

33.

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

Butler, Samuel

34.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

37.

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

38.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

43.

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've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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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

47.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

48.

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

49.

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.