Motivational Quotes

Work

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

Best Quotes about Work

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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

Parkinson's Law

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Voltaire

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

11.

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

17.

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

Robert Morley

18.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

25.

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

Baldwin, James

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

27.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

29.

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

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Osler, Sir William

32.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

33.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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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

36.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

37.

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

38.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

40.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

44.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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

Frost, Robert

48.

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

Michelangelo

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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

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel