Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

Frost, Robert

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

Barrett, Colleen C.

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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

John Ruskin

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Thomas A. Edison

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Comaneci, Nadia

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi

30.

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

32.

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

35.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Henry J. Kaiser

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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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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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

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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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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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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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

Mitchell, Warren

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

Jones, Beverly

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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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.