Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Work

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bhagavad Gita

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

Work is a four letter word!

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

13.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Shakarian, David

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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

18.

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

22.

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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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

24.

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

25.

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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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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.

29.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

31.

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.

32.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

33.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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

40.

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

Paterno, Joe

43.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

45.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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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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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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Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

50.

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese