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

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

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

David McCullough

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

Milsap, Ronnie

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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

Michelangelo

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley

I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

11.

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

12.

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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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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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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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

18.

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

Burns, Mamie Sypert

19.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

22.

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

Maurois, Andre

23.

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

Proverb, French

24.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

25.

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

28.

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

Book, William Frederick

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

30.

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

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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

33.

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

34.

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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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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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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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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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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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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

45.

...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

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Work is more fun than fun.