Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Twain, Mark

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Richard Bach

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Keller, Helen

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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.

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Prince, Ray

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

David Shore

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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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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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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

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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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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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans