Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

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

Bob Ross

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Rivers, Joan

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Weil, Simone

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Barack Obama

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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

11.

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

Jones, Beverly

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

Confucius

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jong, Erica

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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

Voltaire

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

Paterno, Joe

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Allen, James

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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