Motivational Quotes

Work

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

- Miyazawa, Kiichi

Best Quotes about Work

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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

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

Proverb, American

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Work is a four letter word!

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Prince, Ray

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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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.

John Ruskin

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Twain, Mark

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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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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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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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 welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Peter Drucker

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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 hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.