Motivational Quotes

Work

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

- William Lyon Phelps

Best Quotes about Work

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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

Mitchell, Warren

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Wilde, Oscar

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

10.

If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

11.

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

12.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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

David McCullough

16.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

17.

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

Don Marquis

18.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

20.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

21.

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

22.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Maurois, Andre

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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

24.

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

Riley, Pat

25.

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Robert Morley

29.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

30.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

31.

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

Maharaj, Nisaragada Ha

32.

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

Herbert, George

33.

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Wran, Neville Kenneth

34.

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

35.

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 is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

Herold, Don

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

40.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

41.

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

Frost, Robert

42.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

43.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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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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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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