Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

David Shore

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

Jong, Erica

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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

Benchley, Robert

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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

11.

I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

12.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

15.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

17.

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

19.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

20.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Smith, Dr. Walter

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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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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

29.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

31.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

32.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

33.

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

Milsap, Ronnie

34.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

36.

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

Gorky, Maxim

37.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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 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

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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

Lowell, James Russell

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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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

49.

We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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