Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

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

Henry J. Kaiser

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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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

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Keller, Helen

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

Paterno, Joe

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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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 --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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 a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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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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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

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

David Shore

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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

Weil, Simone

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

Ogilvy, David

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Twain, Mark

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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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 the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim