Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcevoy, J. P.

Best Quotes about Work

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Proverb, French

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

Mansfield, Katherine

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

15.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Oakley, Ann

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

25.

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

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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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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

28.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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 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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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

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

Lowell, James Russell

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

41.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

42.

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Richard Bach

44.

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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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Benchley, Robert