Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Mcevoy, J. P.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Sand, George

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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

Proverb, American

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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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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The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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

Twain, Mark

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

Parkinson's Law

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Richard Bach

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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

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett