Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Robert Morley

Best Quotes about Work

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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.

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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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Voltaire

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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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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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 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

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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

Twain, Mark

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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

Oprah Winfrey

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Wilkinson, Bud

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Sand, George

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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.

Benchley, Robert

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Kipling, Rudyard

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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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