Motivational Quotes

Work

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

- Milsap, Ronnie

Best Quotes about Work

Work is a four letter word!

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Devine, Dan

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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

David McCullough

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

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

Maurois, Andre

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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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Arnold, Matthew

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Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

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

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.

Bible

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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.

Blow, Susan

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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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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Stengel, Casey

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

Oakley, Ann

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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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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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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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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A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

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Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

LeMond, Greg

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret