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

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Keller, Helen

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

Escher, M. C.

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

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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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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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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

Ford, Henry

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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.

Rivers, Joan

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, French

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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

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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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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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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb, American

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Peter Drucker

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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

Howard Newton