Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Bible

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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

Twain, Mark

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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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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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 a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:'Whose?'

Don Marquis

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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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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

21.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mcevoy, J. P.

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Butler, Samuel

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Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Mcgregor, Douglas Murray

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

Frost, Robert

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Book, William Frederick

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?