Motivational Quotes

Work

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Work

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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

Rivers, Joan

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

Keller, Helen

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

David Shore

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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

Garfield, James A.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Voltaire

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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Syrus, Publilius

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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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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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

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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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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton