Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Work

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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

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.

...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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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

Angelou, Maya

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rutte, Martin

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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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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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

Robert Morley

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Proverb, American

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

David Shore

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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