Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about 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

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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

Austen, Jane

We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

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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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

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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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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Landry, Tom

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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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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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Ruth, Babe

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

Horace

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Voltaire

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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

Rivers, Joan

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

Sand, George