Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Work

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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.

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

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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

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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 food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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

Blow, Susan

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Austen, Jane

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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.