Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

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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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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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

Riley, Pat

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Riley, Pat

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

Thomas Carlyle

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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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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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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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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

Ogden Nash

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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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

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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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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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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