Motivational Quotes

Work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Work

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

Slick, Grace

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Oakley, Ann

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Homer

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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

Rivers, Joan

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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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

12.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Frost, Robert

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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

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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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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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Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

Ford, Henry

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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Ecker, Frederick Hudson

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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

Voltaire

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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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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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.

Fleyer, Paul J.

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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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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No one man is superior to the game.

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

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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

39.

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

Carty, Margaret

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Frank, Anne

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

Johnson, James Weldon

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