Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Work

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

Voltaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Halas, George

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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.

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Elbert Hubbard

28.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Robert Benchley

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

Weil, Simone

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

45.

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

Twain, Mark

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Hubbard, Elbert