Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Work

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

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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

Voltaire

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Don Marquis

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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

Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,

Leon, Sy

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Twain, Mark

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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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

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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Austen, Jane

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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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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Devine, Dan

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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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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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

Riley, Pat

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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Keller, Helen

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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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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

29.

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Fox, Jim

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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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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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

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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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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

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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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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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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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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Paterno, Joe

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.