Motivational Quotes

Work

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

- Barrett, Colleen C.

Best Quotes about Work

The work praises the man.

Proverb, Irish

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Thatcher, Margaret

The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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

Michelangelo

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Brodsky, Joseph

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.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Proverb

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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Johnson, Samuel

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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

Paterno, Joe

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

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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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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It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Jong, Erica

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Work is the province of cattle.

Parker, Dorothy

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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

Blow, Susan

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

Twain, Mark

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

Don Marquis

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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

Riley, Pat

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

Devine, Dan

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The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Barrett, Colleen C.

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

Escher, M. C.

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

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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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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In other cases, to get the best work out of people you may have to pretend you are not their boss and let them treat someone else like the boss, and then that whispers to you behind a fake wall and you tell them what to tell the first person. Contrary to what I believed as a little girl, being the boss almost never involves marching around, waving your arms, and chanting, " I am the boss! I am the boss!"

Tina Fey

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow -- security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

O'Casey, Sean

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Berra, Yogi