Motivational Quotes

Work

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Work

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

Riley, Pat

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

Shakarian, David

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

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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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

Robert Morley

10.

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

11.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

13.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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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

17.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

18.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

19.

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

20.

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

LeMond, Greg

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

23.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

24.

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

Allen, James

25.

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

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

27.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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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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A job worth doing is worth doing together.

32.

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

Lennon, John

33.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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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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Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Ashford, Evelyn

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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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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

38.

Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Brown, Dean Charles R.

42.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

45.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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

Keller, Helen

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

Mcgoorty, Danny