Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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

Twain, Mark

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

Thatcher, Margaret

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

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

11.

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

Jones, Beverly

12.

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

Holtz, Lou

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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

Paterno, Joe

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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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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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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

Carty, Margaret

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Proverb, French

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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

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Holtz, Lou

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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

David Shore

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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

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

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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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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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Robert Benchley