Motivational Quotes

Work

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Work

Work alone is noble.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

James M. Barrie

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

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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

Book, William Frederick

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?

Larkin, Philip

The sharp employ the sharp.

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

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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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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

Halas, George

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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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

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Pennebaker, Don Alan

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

Jones, Beverly

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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

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Work is more fun than fun.

Coward, Noel

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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Fromme, Dr. Allan

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.

Shakarian, David

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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Comaneci, Nadia

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

Escher, M. C.

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Work is a four letter word!

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire