Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

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

Paterno, Joe

You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Lawrence, D. H.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

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

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

Mcgoorty, Danny

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

Robert Morley

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

Friedan, Betty

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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

11.

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

Ruskin, John

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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

Ford, Henry

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Conran, Shirley

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Robert Benchley

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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Lombardi, Vince

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

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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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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

36.

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

Barzan, Gerald

37.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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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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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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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

42.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work is a four letter word!

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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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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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell