Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Work

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Huxley, Aldous

While a person gets they can never lose.

Proverb, Scottish

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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

11.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Randall Munroe, xkcd

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Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

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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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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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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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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Foster, Jodie

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

David McCullough

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

Robert Morley

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Michelangelo

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No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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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

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

42.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

Cahill, Michael C.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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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

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

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

Devine, Dan