Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Work

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

Baldwin, James

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

Barack Obama

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

12.

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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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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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Work is a four letter word!

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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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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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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

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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.

27.

We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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

David Shore

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

32.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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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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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary