Motivational Quotes

Work

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

- Maurice, Priscilla

Best Quotes about Work

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey

10.

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

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

14.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

15.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Maurois, Andre

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Barzan, Gerald

21.

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

22.

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

25.

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

Gillis, Dobie

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

31.

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

Holtz, Lou

32.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

33.

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

Marquis, Don

34.

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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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

40.

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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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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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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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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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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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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