Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is more fun than fun.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Work

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Bridge, Michael

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol, Andy

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

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Voltaire

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Riley, Pat

No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.

Talmud, The

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

Gillis, Dobie

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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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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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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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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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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Riley, Pat

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

Devine, Dan

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

Escher, M. C.

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

Hal Lancaster

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

Foster, Jodie

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis

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

Lowell, James Russell

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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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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Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Lombardi, Vince

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

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

Mitchell, Warren

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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

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Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.

Larry Page

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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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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

Proverb

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert