Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

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

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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.

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

Jong, Erica

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Dodge, B.

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

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

Carty, Margaret

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Escher, M. C.

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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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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.

Rollwagen, John

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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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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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

David Shore

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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

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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

LeMond, Greg

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

Voltaire

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

Rutte, Martin

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

Sand, George

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Paterno, Joe

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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