Motivational Quotes

Work

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Work

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.

Orwell, George

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

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.

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

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

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Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Twain, Mark

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bob Ross

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

Proverb, American

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

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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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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Davis, Bette

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas.Only individuals can do this.A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.

Green, Estill I.

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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 really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.

Charette, Fred

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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.

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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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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

Howard Newton

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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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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.

John Ruskin

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Mitchell, Warren

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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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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Twain, Mark