Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

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

Parkinson's Law

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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 expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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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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When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

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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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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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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.

34.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Carty, Margaret

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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.

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

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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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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

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