Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Work

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Pavlova, Anna

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Marquis, Don

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Paterno, Joe

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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

Richard Bach

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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How is the president?

Rogers, Will

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

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

Maurois, Andre

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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

Halas, George

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Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

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

Voltaire

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Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Maurice, Priscilla

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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. 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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Prince, Ray

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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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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

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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.

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne