Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Work

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Garfield, James A.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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

Rutte, Martin

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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

Lennon, John

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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

Keller, Helen

37.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Keller, Helen

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

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing