Motivational Quotes

Work

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Work

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

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Proverb, French

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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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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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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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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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.