Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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

Twain, Mark

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jong, Erica

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Holtz, Lou

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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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

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

24.

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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

Voltaire

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

33.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

35.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

38.

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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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

42.

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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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

44.

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

45.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

Romer, Frank

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

Maurois, Andre

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

49.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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]

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