Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Shakarian, David

Best Quotes about Work

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Howard Newton

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Michelangelo

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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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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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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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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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

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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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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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jones, Beverly

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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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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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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

Voltaire

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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wilfred A. Peterson

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

Frost, Robert

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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

LeMond, Greg

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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De