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

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

Don Marquis

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Foster, Jodie

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

Halas, George

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Ruskin, John

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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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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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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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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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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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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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

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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Howard Newton

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Twain, Mark

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Barack Obama

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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

Coolidge, Calvin