Motivational Quotes

Work

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Work

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Holtz, Lou

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

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

David McCullough

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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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 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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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Keller, Helen

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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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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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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

Richard Bach

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is a four letter word!

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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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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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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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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

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